The Breakroom

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

A Long Overdue Apology

May 11, 2004

Way back in Iconfactory ancient history, say around 1998, the workers re-designed the site with what has become known as our “black phase”. That is to say that the predominant color of the pages of the site was black with white type. We received quite a few emails from people saying things like “Your site […]

Announcing the immediate availability of our latest royalty-free icon collection from StockIcons.com – Isometric. Designed using an exacting perspective grid and a bright color palette, the Isometric collection has a unified appearance, and emphasizes the technical aspects of projects. For clarity the smaller, 16×16 sizes are rendered straight on while maintaining the feel of their […]

Now that our server problems have been corrected, Iconfactory artist, Dave Brasgalla, unveils his latest freeware icon collection today – Rev 2 Folders. This set of smooth and elegant folder replacement icons families perfectly with Dave’s earlier release of Rev 2 Drives and will help give your desktop a clean and hi-tech appearance. For Mac […]

Just a quick note to let everyone know that we are currently experiencing technical difficulties with our backend database and as a result you are experiencing errors when attempting to access certain portions of the factory. Rest assured, we are working on the problem and hope to have the site back up and running shortly. […]

Today marks the release of the latest version of our professional icon construction filter, IconBuilder. Version 5 adds several important features including support for building 24×24 pixel Windows toolbar icons as well as custom 128×128 Windows icons. These, plus other feature additions and several important enhancements are outlined on the IconBuilder homepage. Registered users can […]

Let It Ride Baby!

April 13, 2004

Announcing our latest freeware icon release – Las Vegas Vol. 2 from Iconfactory artist Kate England! That’s right, these graphic and bold icons pick up where we last left off – on the Vegas strip and ready for action. If you’ve been caught up in the popularity of poker and games of chance sweeping the […]

The Polls Are Now Closed!

April 13, 2004

Public voting has ended for Pixelpalooza People’s Choice 2004. As we begin to tally the ballots we would like to thank everyone for supporting your favorite entries this year. Please join us on April 21 when we announce all of the final winners. Good luck to everyone!