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Boo Meow!

October 17, 2006

The trappings of the spooky season come in all shapes and sizes and today they take the form of a cute, but spooky robotic kitty cat from everyone’s favorite cult cartoon, Invader Zim. Artist Mindy Weaver lends her creations to the season with today’s freeware desktop picture release – Boo Meow! Who knows where or when this kitty will strike with her deadly laser beam eyes – just don’t be in her line of sight! She’s sure to help spookify your computer’s desktop or at least give it that touch of cool you’ve been looking for for oh so long. Trick or treat!

Special Cross-grade Offer at Stockicons.com

October 16, 2006

By Webmaster

Stockicons.com is pleased to announce a special offer where you can take 50% off the purchase price of any Basic or Basic EPS stock icon collection. For a limited time we are offering these cornerstone collections at a reduced rate. Have you purchased stock icons at other web sites and found them to be lacking in depth or usability? Now you can leverage that purchase and receive 50% off the base price of any Stockicons.com Basic collection.

We urge you to visit the cross-grade promotion page at Stockicons.com for more information on this incredible offer. The savings is substantial and is only available for a limited time. Making the switch to Stockicons.com is fast, easy and economical. Let the Iconfactory put our decade of experience and expertise to work for you and your next project.

Wii Are Waiting In Line…

October 13, 2006

By Webmaster

If you are a game console fan, then you know the significance of today. Yes, the sky is turning red, the seas are about to boil and the earth is about to stop spinning. Okay, so its not that important, its just the day that the new Nintendo Wii console goes on pre-order here in the US. David and Ged are off to camp out at our Greensboro GameSpot at the Target shopping plaza to pony up our $50 for a piece of gaming history. Maybe we’ll see you there, and stay tuned for pictures from the trenches (note the time of this post)!

UPDATE: David and Ged were successful! We were 3rd and 4th in line at our GameStop which had a grand total of 10 Wii’s for pre-sale. After a loooong morning of freezing temperatures and watching some hard core dudes play XBOX 360 out of the back of their SUV on their flat panel HDTV, we have arrived back at the factory with our sales receipts in hand. WooT! Pictures soon!

UPDATE II: Posted some picts of the chilly event on Flickr. Plus a video of the hard core XBOX dudes playing out of their SUV. Enjoy!

Beware the Bride!

October 10, 2006

By Webmaster

She has risen from the crypt and brought a gaggle of gruesome buddies with her! She is the Bride of Macabre, the sequel to Ged’s popular 2002 Halloween set, Macabre. This time around your desktop will play host to a frightening cast of characters including Jason Voorhees, Samara from The Ring, H.R. Geiger’s Alien, Nosferatu and many others!

Do you dare to download the terror that is the Bride of Macabre? Can you keep them on your desktop long enough to even look at them without getting chills? There is only one way to find out. Crawl over and grab this set of freeware icons for your Mac, PC or as a spooky, searchable Pixadex iContainer today. These icons also contain 256×256 resources for extra creepy-ness on next generation operating systems. You’ve been warned, there is no turning back!

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“Creatures crawl in search of blood…”

October 9, 2006

By Webmaster

Welcome children of the night! That’s right, we’re dripping with excitement to announce that our 2006 haunted Halloween makeover has finally arrived! Our favorite holiday is fast approaching and so the slaves (sorry, we mean workers) have conjured up a few ghoulies and ghosties to help ‘redecorate’ the factory.

The month of October means spooky icon sets, scary new desktop pictures, and tasty tricks and treats in the form of all new QuickPix for your pleasure. Be sure to keep visiting for the latest Halloween happenings in our News Links. You don’t want to miss a moment of the creepy, crawly fun.

And while you are fending off the hordes of Halloween goodies that have stacked up over the years here at the factory, be sure to visit our Staff page. Our employees have undergone horrific transformations for our new site design, so be sure to bring your silver bullets and holy water!

Our month long tribute to all things All Hallow’s Eve begins today and we hope you’ll stay tuned for everything emerging from the lab in the weeks ahead. Fun stuff is in store so enjoy the creepy new Iconfactory, and Happy Halloween!

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Meet Mr. Lanham

October 9, 2006

By Webmaster

In case you missed it, last week AppleMatters.com posted an interview with our very own talented icon artist, David Lanham. Learn what inspires David to create, how his view of the world has evolved and how he came to be among friends here at the Iconfactory. If you are a fan of David’s work, then be sure to hop on over and give it a browse, you won’t be dissapointed.

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Announcing Harmony Multimedia

October 6, 2006

By Webmaster

The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the final bitmap collection in the Harmony stock icon family is complete and available for purchase. Harmony: Multimedia is a set of add-ons that extends our most popular family into the audio and visual realm with icons covering concepts such as mixing, effects, video and many others.

Harmony Multimedia contains 52 unique icons in multiple sizes and formats and is available today for $179.00 USD.

Hot off the Press

October 5, 2006

By Webmaster

Do you develop software or publish an e-zine? Broadcast a podcast or draw a cartoon about gaming? Do you design fonts or have you seen a design related event or contest on the web? A great tutorial on graphic design or CSS? Some geeky fun? If any of these things (and more) have caught your eye, then we’d like your help! If you’ve run across content on the web that you think other Iconfactory visitors might enjoy, then drop us a line at our new address for posting Industry news. You’ll find it in the sidebar on our Links Archive page located here. We’re always on the look out for the latest and greatest, so don’t be afraid to point us toward cool, newsworthy stuff.

The Day of the Dead

October 3, 2006

By Webmaster

Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is an ancient Mexican celebration that was started by the Aztecs over 3,000 years ago. Although the Spaniards would try and eradicate the rituals, they only partially subdued it. Over the centuries, this festive holiday of bright colors, macabre imagery and specially prepared foods has honored the dead and symbolized death and rebirth to peoples in Mexico and parts of the United States. It is celebrated from October 31st through November 2nd and as such has become greatly associated with Halloween.

Artist David Lanham has drawn inspiration from Día de los Muertos to create his latest freeware icon set for your desktop. This brightly colored collection of skulls, hard drives, folders and more are a perfect kick start to our month long celebration of all things spooky. Día de los Muertos is available today for your Mac, PC or as a handy Pixadex iContainer. Enjoy!

Halloween Is Coming!

October 2, 2006

By Webmaster

Any long time visitor to the Iconfactory knows that this is positively our most favorite time of year. The air is crisp, the leaves are changing and All Hallow’s Eve approaches! That’s right gang, its almost time for the annual spooky transformation of the factory from friendly pixel playground to the frightening bastion of undead GUI goodness.

If you were paying attention during the week of teaser animations back at the end of July, then you probably spotted a clue to let you know that we have been planning this year’s makeover for quite some time. We’re sure the results will provide an October to remember with all new creepy icons, desktop pictures and a few treats thrown in for good measure. So be here next week when the site is raised from the grave yet again, to the delight of Halloween lovers everywhere. Now, back to the lab, time grows short!

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