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!
The Breakroom
Plateau Stock Icon Collection Released
August 19, 2005
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.
“Good news everyone!”
August 16, 2005
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!
Announcing IconBuilder 8.0
August 4, 2005
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.
Pixadex 1.5.5 Now Available
July 28, 2005
Our friends over at Panic have released a new version of the popular icon collection and organization program – Pixadex. This new version fixes two important bugs, one related to deleting collections and the other that caused a potential crashes when an icon had an invalid URL associated with it. Pixadex 1.5.5 is a free update and is recommended for all users.
More Somatic Goodies Arrive
July 26, 2005
Today marks the release of David Lanham’s latest icon collection – Somatic Xtras 2. This set of over 20 freeware icons updates and expands the Somatic genre of system icons and includes new icons for apps and extras that will come in handy as users give their desktops a complete Somatic make over. We invite you to swing by and download Somatic Xtras 2 for your Mac, PC or as a handy Pixadex iContainer.
