The Iconfactory

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The Iconfactory

Iconfactory icon World of Aqua icon set and the version 6.0 homepage.
URL	http://www.iconfactory.com/
Commercial?	freeware icons, shareware software
Type of site	Icon and GUI customization database
Registration	no
Owner	Corey Marion, Talos Tsui, and Gedeon Maheux
Created by	Corey Marion, Talos Tsui, Gedeon Maheux et al.
Launched	April 1996

The Iconfactory is a small software and graphic design company that specializes in creating icons and software for creating and using icons. The company was founded in April 1996 by Corey Marion, Talos Tsui, and Gedeon Maheux. Lead Engineer Craig Hockenberry joined the company in 1997 and Artist Dave Brasgalla joined in January 1999. The company incorporated in January 2000. The Iconfactory gained popularity through the creation of packages of free icons for download, but quickly grew to become one of the leading studios in commercial icon design. The Iconfactory also publishes software for creating, organizing and using icons as well as general GUI applications.

From 1997 until 2004, the Iconfactory held an annual icon design contest for the Macintosh icon community called Pixelpalooza. The competition was a chance for aspiring artists from all over the world to design and produce original icon creations for the chance of winning software and hardware prizes. Pixelpalooza was discontinued in 2005, although the company says it may make a return in the future.

The Iconfactory's most notable client project to date was creating over 100 icons for Microsoft to be included in the Windows XP^[1] operating system as well as creating the base icons in Windows Vista's Aero interface.^[2] They have also created over 100 icons for the Xbox 360 UI and website.^[3]

1 Software
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Software

IconBuilder — Adobe Photoshop Plugin for creating icons.
CandyBar — Tool to change system icons. Successor to iControl.
Pixadex — Icon management tool similar to iPhoto. Successor to IconDropper.
iPulse — Utility to visualize system activity.
Frenzic — Puzzle game that "takes minutes to learn and months to master".
xScope — Tool for measuring any element on screen.
Dine-O-Matic — Dashboard widget.
DownloadCheck — Simple utility inspired by the MP3Concept trojan horse
Twitterrific — Utility to monitor and post to the social networking site Twitter.
IconDropper — Icon management utility for System 7, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9.
iControl — Utility to change any system icon in Mac OS 8 & 9.