New Iconfactory Now Live, Amora Unleashed

August 01st, 2006 at 1:12pm • Posted in GUI Customization • Tagged , ,

The New IconfactoryAfter a week of highly entertaining teasers, the new Iconfactory is finally open, and it's never looked better. You'll find a lot of goodies here besides the redone site (which, by the way, now includes desktops as well), including a full system icon replacement set by David Lanham to match his recently released theme, Amora, a really quirky new Dashboard widget called "Dine-o-Matic" to help choose your next dinner outing (I know it sounds silly but it's a hilarious widget, give it a try), and a redone StockIcons.com.

Dine-o-Matic Preview

And those who were concerned about Amora's rather crazy looks will be happy to know it includes two more muted variants, including one that can best be described as a more modern, sharper Milk. Plus, there's a really cool desktop by former collaborater and one of my favorite artists, Piotr Gajos. Intel users, just make sure you have the latest ShapeShifter beta installed to have these theme work!

Take a visit to the new Iconfactory and David's site to grab these goodies. (And if the new IF isn't loading for you, give it some time for your DNS to update.) Congrats to the hard-working pixel pushers for pulling this off!

Edit: Whoops, Dave's site got dugg to death, so here's a mirror download link for Amora: Download it!



Forget About Aqua, Say Hi to Amora

July 29th, 2006 at 1:55pm • Posted in GUI Customization • Tagged , , ,

Nearly a year ago, Iconfactory artist David Lanham shared some icon sketches with me based on Bjork's "All is Full of Love" music video which features some really cool white plastic/black rubber sheathed robots. I told him he just had to do a full theme based on these icons, and after a loooong and rather painful (think over 17 totally different attempts at getting the Finder buttons right painful) development, the theme, titled Amora, is now finally nearing release having met David's high standards for his work. Presenting Amora:

Amora Preview
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