The Breakroom

Ars Technica sat down during this year’s WWDC conference with several noted software developers and got their thoughts on a wide range of subjects. The series includes interviews with Alex Payne of Twitter, Amit Singh of Google and several others. Today’s entry is our very own Chief Typist, Craig Hockenberry. Ars writer Clint Ecker delves […]

If you’ve ever wondered how you could say “Thanks!” to the workers for years of pumping out freeware icons, desktop pictures and killer software, this post is for you. Over at the Foreman’s blog, he’s outlined an effort we’ve begun to help convince Apple that ARTIS and the Iconfactory’s challenging puzzle app, Frenzic, is a […]

Unless you’ve been hiding out on one of the moons of Cybertron, then you probably know that July 4th marks the international release of Transformers The Movie. This big screen adaptation from director Michael Bay and Dreamworks Pictures is the most anticipated film of the summer. To help mark the occasion, comes the third installment […]

Ready to Roll Out?

June 15, 2007

Transformers fans everywhere are eagerly awaiting the release of the new big-screen movie from Director Michael Bay, including our own Foreman. Be sure to visit the factory this coming Tuesday, the 19th for the release of Ged’s third installment in his Transformers series. You can get a sneak peek over at his blog while you […]

Chickens and Eggs

June 8, 2007

As developers prepare for our week in San Francisco, many thoughts turn towards what we might see on Monday. Some are good, some are not. It’s no secret that we’re on the cusp of a major revolution in how UI is presented: resolution independence. But there’s a major problem with the adoption of this technology: […]

Stockicons.com expands on its offerings of scalable vector icons today with the release of several sets for the Harmony and Satin stock icon families. The Harmony family now has scalable EPS versions available for its Database, Finance and Multimedia add-ons, making them perfect for large format print or web applications. In addition, the popular Satin […]

Today’s freeware release from David Lanham is just like heading to the store and popping 25 cents into the gumball machine to get a roll of cool stickers. Except there’s no store, the stickers are free and there’s no gluey mess to worry about! Since the release of David’s first set of fun sticker icons, […]

Announcing the immediate release of IconBuilder 8.5 for Mac OS X. This latest update to our professional Photoshop & Fireworks filter for creating icons on the Macintosh, now fully supports Adobe’s new CS3 set of tools. The filter’s architecture has been re-engineered from the ground up in Xcode to take advantage of CS3’s new plug-in […]

Our good friends over at Panic marked their 10th anniversary as Mac software developers today with their landmark release of Coda. Coda is a single window environment for creating websites that features built in HTML, CSS, FTP and even Terminal support. Take your favorite apps used to create websites and bring them together into one […]

If you’ve ever wondered what goes through the brains of icon designers as they work their mojo, you are in luck. 37signals invited Iconfactory Principals Corey Marion and Dave Brasgalla to an informal Fireside Chat to discuss the state of icons and icon design. They met up online with noted icon artists Brian Brasher and […]