The Breakroom

Just a quick note to ask visitors to keep Corey and family in their thoughts these next few days. Why is that you ask? The Marion Family left for their bi-annual vacation last Sunday, which, under normal circumstances would be a cause for celebration. Except that their vacation destination, as it is every year, is the Outer Banks of North Carolina. If you’ve been watching the weather, than you know that the first hurricane of the season, Alex, just happens to be brushing NC’s coast this week. That being the case, we are keeping Corey and family in mind. We’ll keep you posted on the Marion clan, and in the mean time, keep your finger’s crossed that Alex will head out to sea and Corey and Cynthia can survive being locked inside with their children all day long. :-)

Update: Although the coast did suffer significant damage, the Marion family came through with flying colors! Thanks for your well wishes everyone!

We’re pleased to announce that Mac theme and GUI artist, Max Rudberg, has completed his very first OS X icon set. Some of you may know Max from the accomplished theme work he’s done for the platform. What you may not know is that Max has been working as an intern in the Iconfactory / Marmalade Moon office in Stockholm, Sweden for several months.

One of his first assignments was an icon set of course, and this week’s “New Icon Tuesday” release of Play Time over at Max Themes is the result. We hope you will support the efforts of this fledgling icon artist and download his work and if you enjoy it, write to him and let him know. Its takes a great deal of talent and patience to pull off a set so successfully on your first time out, and from all of us here at the factory, we’d like to say “Well done Max!”. Enjoy.

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we will be shutting the factory down tomorrow as we move our pixel-pushers over to the brand new factory floor. If all goes well we will restart the assembly line over the weekend just in time to produce our latest icon set for next Tuesday’s release. Thanks for your patience while we upgrade our facilities.

The word out of WWDC this morning is that our good friends over at Panic have picked up two prestigious Apple Design Awards for their ground-breaking work on Unison. The Usenet news reader application won Runner-Up for Best Mac OS X Product as well as 1st place for Best Mac OS X Experience. While we’d like to think we contributed a teeny, tiny bit to Unison’s “Mac OS X Experience”, of course its the talented team of dedicated programmers and designers at Panic that cranks out one award winning piece of software after another. So from all of us here at The Iconfactory, well done guys!