Announcing the immediate availability of Spark, the latest addition to the growing collection of ready-to-use, professionally designed icons at Stockicons.com. With its energetic and casual charm, Spark brings life to any project or website. Simple and bold, Spark is designed to communicate concepts quickly and effortlessly. Spark is also available in scalable EPS format for use in large format, print and web applications. Spark contains 80 unique icons in multiple sizes and formats and is available today for $349.00 USD. Spark EPS contains 80 scalable EPS files and is available for $249.00 USD.
The Breakroom
On this day six years ago (in an alternate reality) the Moon was violently ripped from Earth orbit by a cataclysmic nuclear explosion, sending the inhabitants of Moonbase Alpha into the unknown. So begins Gerry Anderson’s fanciful 1970’s Sci-Fi cult classic TV show, Space: 1999. To celebrate this historic day in geekdom history, resident artist, Dave Brasgalla, is pleased to offer his latest freeware collection – Space: 1999. Fans of the series will instantly recognize the objects and ships from the short-lived show. Rendered in loving detail, there is something here for everyone and the collection is available for Macintosh, PC or Pixadex iContainer. So hop on a travel tube and blast off to adventure!
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As an iconic tribute to a very special upcoming event, iconist Kate England presents Wedding! All of us here at the Iconfactory are looking forward to joining in the celebration as our own Talos Tsui gets married in the next couple of weeks. We ask that you join us as well by downloading this little pixellated wedding present today. Double happiness Talos and Rachel!
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Announcing the immediate availability of Plateau, the latest addition to the growing collection of ready-to-use, professionally designed icons at Stockicons.com. Fun and playful, Plateau’s bold colors and quirky lines will bring a retro feel to any application or website. Plateau is also available in scalable EPS format for use in large format, print and web applications. Plateau contains 80 unique icons in multiple sizes and formats and is available today for $349.00 USD. Plateau EPS contains 80 scalable EPS files and is available for $249.00 USD.
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Yes, that’s right! This week’s freeware release comes straight from the year 3000 and New, New York. Futurama Vol.1 offers up super-cool icons of the entire Planet Express team from the hit, but defunct, animated Fox TV show Futurama. Favorites like Bender, Leela, Fry and even Nibbler are just waiting for you to unfreeze them. Futurama Vol.1 is available now for your Macintosh, PC or as a handy, searchable Pixadex iContainer guaranteed to lock in freshness. If you enjoy this set, be sure to drop us a note and let us know. Now, everyone back to work!
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After more than a week of shake-down time, we are pleased to announce that IconBuilder has been updated to version 8.0.1. This latest release squashes a bug relating to Japanese systems and another with Photoshop palette problems. It also adds small features regarding marquee creation and duplicate resource checking. This update is recommended and is free to registered users of IconBuilder 8. Visit the IconBuilder home page for more information.
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A quick note from our very own David Lanham to let everyone know he’s been up late nights working on an update to his ever-popular Somatic desktop theme and system replacement icons. Available at his personal website, don’t miss Somatic Theme 2.0 optimized to work with Tiger as well as Somatic Docs, which contain 280 (you read that right – 280) Somatic document type icons for the ultimate Somatic make-over. So don’t stand around here, there are cool things to download. Get going!
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Fans of Anthony’s popular Litho System have all new reasons to smile today. Litho Extras Vol. 2 expands the application offerings for the Litho style including important applications like the Adobe Creative Suite, BBEdit, Macromedia software and goodies from our friends at Panic. We invite you to surf on over to the Showroom and pick up these latest additions to the Litho universe today for either Mac, PC or as a handy Pixadex iContainer. Enjoy!
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The Iconfactory’s filter for constructing icons, IconBuilder has been re-designed from the ground up in Cocoa for unprecedented power and flexibility, and still sports many of the features that users have come to know and expect. The filter also offers a host of new features that icon artists everywhere will appreciate. Here is a highlight of just some of the new features that IconBuilder 8.0 has to offer:
- Creation of icon resources of any size up to 1024×1024 pixels
- Ability to save generic image formats, such as TIFFs, BMPs, etc.
- Save icons in multiple file formats at the same time
- Standard and custom Grid Files and Presets that can be shared
- Build icons for an entire project with a single filter pass
- Expanded resource protection and information via new Verification Report
- Revised and expanded IconBuilder Assistant Photoshop actions
IconBuilder 8.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3.9, Adobe Photoshop 7.0+ or Macromedia Fireworks MX 2004 and is available today for $79.00 USD. We invite you to visit the IconBuilder homepage to view screen shots, learn about all of the filter’s new features and download and try the filter out for free. Users who purchased IconBuilder Pro 5.x after April 1st, 2005, are entitled to a free upgrade to version 8. Upgrades for those who purchased IconBuilder Pro prior to 4/1/2005 are available $30.00.
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Most of the Iconfactory crew were big fans of the original Battlestar Galactica and were a bit apprehensive about the prospect of the “re-imagined” series. However, after seeing the miniseries back in 2003 we were hooked. Fridays at 10pm on the Sci Fi Channel are now can’t-miss events. Corey Marion presents a few relevant objects from the new Battlestar Galactica in his latest icon release. Download them for your Mac, PC or as a Pixadex iContainer. So say we all!
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