The Breakroom • A blog for the Iconfactory

Now For Something Different

June 2, 2004

This week’s freeware icon release is a sort of visual experiment from Iconfactory artist, Talos Tsui. Totem Pole is a unique set of system and application icons with visual influences from Native American artwork. The icons are designed to stack together in a vertically oriented dock, but also work well on their own. If this collection is popular, Talos predicts more in the series, so drop us a note and let us know your thoughts. Totem Pole is available for both Mac and Win and comes as a handy Pixadex iContainer. Enjoy.

New Freeware Icons Tomorrow

June 1, 2004

By Webmaster

The U.S. Memorial Day Holiday has put the workers behind a day or so on the assembly line, so be sure to tune in here tomorrow for the latest freeware release from IF artist, Talos Tsui. And while your patiently waiting, be sure to swing on over to MacThemes.net and read the in-depth interview with our own Dave Brasgalla. You’ll get to know what makes Dave tick and how he does some of those oh-so-cool things with icons. Check it out!

“Will You Pilot Eva?”

May 27, 2004

By Webmaster

We’re proud to announce that this week’s freeware release is the latest in Mindy’s series of Neon Genesis Evangelion desktop pictures. This time out, our focus is the series’ own “hero” Shinji Ikari. Shinji is available in multiple screen resolutions and makes a great desktop for anime fans everywhere. Surf on over and grab it today.

Movin’ On Up!

May 21, 2004

By Webmaster

For the second time in three years, The Iconfactory has outgrown its office space in Greensboro, NC. Its now been one year since Designer Anthony Piraino joined the factory, and the recent addition of Designer David Lanham pushed us over the occupancy limit. Since the workers are now packed in tighter than pickles (thanks Ellen!), we’ve made arrangements to move… two doors down to a new space. If all goes according to plan, we should be moving into the new office the week of July 6th. Stay tuned!

Saving The World One Desktop At A Time

May 20, 2004

By Webmaster

Our resident comic book nut Talos Tsui has created an all-new desktop picture to accompany Gedeon’s recent icon release of Justice League. Now you can have the forces of good right there on your desktop as you battle evil deadlines and malicious kernel panics. Surf on over to scoop up this cool creation in a number of different desktop resolutions.

Once More To Middle Earth

May 18, 2004

By Webmaster

Next Tuesday marks the DVD home release of “The Return Of The King”, the final installment in Peter Jackson’s film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings. Factory worker and long-time Tolkien reader Dave Brasgalla has taken his excitement about the event and put it to work, crafting a set of over 20 exciting new icons that follow the design aesthetic of the films.

The Lord Of The Rings: Armoury Of The Third Age began as a collection of swords, shields and other objects and heraldry associated with the various races of Middle Earth, but it soon evolved to encompass many other objects from Tolkien’s story. Richly detailed and painstakingly drawn, these miniature paintings will give you the chance to visit Middle Earth everyday – right on your desktop! This latest freeware collection is available now for the Mac, Windows and as a Pixadex iContainer. Lastly, don’t forget to grab the 5 matching desktop pictures available from Dave’s personal page, Pixelhuset.

Introducing Max Rudberg

May 14, 2004

By Webmaster

We are very happy to announce that designer Max Rudberg has accepted and begun a 4 month intern position as a production assistant at the Iconfactory / Marmalade Moon studio in Stockholm, Sweden. Max is a graduate of Nacka Mediagymnasium. In his spare time Max enjoys creating themes for Mac OS X. You can view some of his work at his personal web site – MaxThemes. From all of the factory workers, welcome aboard Max!

Arm Yourself with DownloadCheck

May 13, 2004

By Webmaster

Our Chief Typist, Craig Hockenberry has written a new freeware utility that checks for applications in your Downloads folder. It was created in response to the MP3Concept Trojan horse release of April 2004. See John Gruber’s excellent commentary on this Trojan and the controversy/hype that it generated. Although its highly unlikely Mac users will encounter a MP3 or other document type masquerading as an application, it is best to be prepared. DownloadCheck is released as a deterrent for anyone who might consider writing an exploit of this type. We hope that we’ll never need to use it. The utility is available today and is available free of charge.

Fresh iContainers of Classic Content

May 12, 2004

By Webmaster

Just a quick note to let everyone know that a new batch of previously released icon sets have been converted into Pixadex iContainers for you to download. Why bother re-downloading icons you might already have? As with all Pixadex iContainers we release, the icons contain searchable keywords that make finding specific concepts or terms easy as pie. If you use Pixadex, you might want to grab them and replace previously downloaded sets with these new iContainer versions: Las Vegas, Risky & Safety, Smoothicons Vol. 4, World of Copland 6 and Star Wars Vol. 1. Watch for more in the future!

“Its a bird! Its a plane!”

May 11, 2004

By Webmaster

This week’s freeware release comes from the Foreman himself and is based on the logos of a certain team of super heroes that you may be familiar with. That’s right – Justice League lands on your desktop to protect you from the forces of evil and keep the earth safe from super villains. Fly (don’t walk) over and download these super (sorry had to do it) icons today as either standard Mac or Windows icons or as a cool Pixadex iContainer. Enjoy!

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