We’ve released an all new Icon Set this morning called Nexgen. Nexgen is fully dedicated to the love we have for video games and gamers. We also built Nexgen to satisfy the need for a photo-realistic, quality-consistent library of video game console graphics. The benefits are the usual glorious bits: Zero design time and close to immediate implementation, Guifx free software companion tool (Icon Tools), redistribution licenses available for software and hardware manufacturers, and best of all, free updates for life.

Nexgen includes 50 icons of staggering beauty, served at a whopping 512 x 512 resolution (Yeah… they’re massive). And, with the set being based on current and past generation video game consoles, all of your favorites are there. Head on over to the store to check Nexgen out in all its digital glory.

We’re introducing this set for only $79.99 as a promotional price for the EH Expo. Get it while it’s hot folks! Nexgen will be there tomorrow, but that price will not be.

Want more icons? Let us know about it in the comments.

It’s a big Friday for our RTI users. Specifically the T4 / K4 fans. Guifx announced this morning that their incredibly popular ‘Adaptation’ Graphic Set has been totally worked over into a gorgeous new RTI Template for use in the Integration Designer software.

For our customers, this new Adaptation design is so much more than just another RTI template release. It’s a beacon of excellence with regards to what Guifx template usability should be. Graphically, Adaptation has always been a proven design. But the amount of time that has gone into making sure Adaptation for RTI is easy to use and sensible for the end-user, is remarkable. We’re confident with what we’ve done here, and we know you’ll love it too.

So far, Adaptation for RTI is only available for the T4 and K4 hardware. But if you love it and can’t wait to have it on your other RTI devices, make sure you let us know. The squeaky wheel gets the grease folks!

Which RTI device would you like to see Adaptation designed for next? Leave us a comment!

Enjoy! Check Adaptation for RTI out here.

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Guifx Graphic Sets save time and end frustration for touch panel system designers. For touch panel system designers, the time consuming process of designing and configuring buttons creates a constant roadblock to efficiency. Software and graphic development firm, Guifx, today introduces the solution. A fully designed, pre-configured set of button graphics that are ready to be used in Crestron, RTI, and AMX design softwares. Guifx calls their latest graphic solution Graphic Sets, and they are available now at www.guifx.com.

Graphic Sets are available in a variety of styles and they are designed to be an effortless addition to any designers workflow. For Crestron and AMX users, Graphic Sets are clipboards that will open as project files in the respective designer software. RTI users will have Graphic Sets installed directly into Integration Designer ready for drag and drop use from their bitmap library. The Graphic Sets include more than fifty different button shapes and are designed to be used together sensibly. They are made to stack, align, and cluster, providing total versatility in screen layout. Each set also includes three cursor sizes. For users wanting even more graphical control, Photoshop documents with export instructions are also available.

“Pre-configured buttons are something we’ve been working on for quite some time,” said Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development for Guifx. “We knew from our own design efforts that handling buttons takes a significant amount of time. Graphic Sets are one of those perfect little gems born out of necessity. We use them on everything we do.”

Software design firm’s shiny, new online home to bring better service and sales.

At a company whose product never leaves the digital world, from initial conception to eventual download, a website that functions as a store while hosting the intangible product is an obvious advantage from both a marketing and economic standpoint.

Guifx, a technology design firm that has long been focused on designing innovative graphics software, has turned their tech savvy eye to revamping its online home. “We are in an aggressive growth state,” said Joe Peduto, Director of Business Development. “It motivated us to overhaul the online Guifx experience and bring customers a new look and more user friendly format.”

The site is designed to bring their customers better service, new products and a streamlined shopping and support experience. The system designed and coded by Guifx’s own software experts gives greater flexibility to update quickly and deploy new products online.

The aesthetic factors and graphic direction of the website were designed by Dan Wiersema, Art Director. Functionality and flow were refined by the entire team, everyone at Guifx had a part in the final product.

The software and design firm partners with RTI in a partnership that brings user friendly icons to touch panel control screens.

Guifx today announced that they are officially integration partners with Remote Technologies Inc. (RTI), a manufacturer of remote and touch-panel controls for complex electronic systems. The agreement is two-way. RTI will license from Guifx the high-def, user-friendly graphics they design for touch panel screens; and in turn, Guifx will design and sell templates compatible with RTI’s systems to consumer electronics dealers.

Guifx, the largest provider of professionally designed touch panel graphics in the world, launched the first commercially available touch panel template in 2002. Guifx specializes in designing the interactive and aesthetic qualities of the touch screens incorporated into many custom installers whole house installations, streamlining and integrating complicated systems into one user friendly network.

The graphics software licensed to RTI includes the Aero Icon Set and Logo Tools. “The Aero Icon Set raises the bar of the level of aesthetics and the user experience that is offered on the market today,” says Guifx director of operations, Morgan Strauss. “These icons are made for every user. Our designers create a high-definition, high-resolution product that provides ultimate usability. The package includes icons that represent all aspects of the home and business automation system, from video game and home theater controls to video and teleconferencing.”

The second product, Logo Tools, will allow RTI to incorporate network logos like the NBC “Peacock” and the VH1 “cube” into their touch panels to replace traditional channel numbers.

Guifx will begin distributing RTI touch panel templates, which feature these high-def graphics, on October 15, 2007. “We’re always excited to partner with a well respected manufacturer like RTI,” says Strauss. “They are truly a world-class organization that is always on the cutting edge of producing the most innovative designs. I think the agreement will take both our businesses to the next level.”

RTI templates will be available for download on the Guifx Web site (http://www.guifx.com), along with the templates of other touch panel manufacturers Crestron, AMX, and MX-3000.

Software and design firm launches one-of-a-kind, user-friendly Aero Icon Set for Touch Panel displays.

Guifx, the software and design division of Florida’s most recognized electronics systems contractor, Audio Advisors, launched their innovative Aero Icon Set today. This product is the first of its kind-a full package of downloadable, high-def, high-res icons that represent all multimedia and device aspects of the home and business automation systems, from video game and home theater controls to video and teleconferencing.

“Our design team strives for the highest level of usability for all our graphics, and I think we hit our target with Aero,” says Morgan Strauss, director of operations for Guifx. “This icon set is more realistic than anything we’ve developed to date.”

The icon set includes approximately 150 photo-realistic graphics designed to be incorporated into touch panel interface, each image meticulously crafted to communicate visually with the user.

Guifx offers two forms of license. The dealer license allows home automation installers to use Aero Icons in their projects, and the embedded license allows manufacturers to embed the graphics in all their products. The first embedded license will go to a designer and manufacturer of remote touch panel technology and will be announced in the next two weeks.

RTI templates are starting to roll out. Meta for RTI installs as a TheaterTouch Designer Page Wizard with multiple layouts and drag-and-drop bitmap library. It doesn’t get any easier than that. The design includes several themes and can be further customized with a personalized background. No detail has been overlooked. Even the cursor control buttons have full high-contrast active states. The source pages have place-holders that you can quickly populate by dragging icons in from the bitmap library. We think our Aero Icon Set is a perfect match here. By the way, RTI has licensed our Aero Icon Set and will be incorporating it into the next version of TheaterTouch Designer so you’ll be able to use them for free on Meta or with any of your other RTI projects.Additional panel support and new designs are in production and are scheduled for release over the coming weeks.

The Aero Icon Set is a complete set of icons designed to enhance the appearance and accessibility of control system interfaces. These gorgeous icons turn the ordinary into the extraordinary. 20% off during September only.

We’re also introducing Icon Tools, a free software application that allows you to quickly and easily batch re-size a collection of icons to a size appropriate for any project.

Guifx is very pleased to announce that its popular Logo Tools software (the beta was downloaded over 25,000 times) is out of beta and available for immediate download. Building on the solid foundation of the software’s beta period, the final release of Logo Tools v1.0 boasts dozens of feature upgrades and software fixes. Logo Tools can be downloaded for free from the Guifx Utilities section of www.guifx.com.

Logo Tools v1.0 takes flexibility to a whole new level. Users can now load their own button images and composite them with any other images they choose. Guifx’s new Luminvert™ technology has been incorporated to insure the images look their best even when compositing a dark logo with a dark button.

All image compositions and setting changes are visible in real-time with the newly added Preview Window. Simply select a custom preview color or textured background to preview how images will look before exporting them. Additionally, the built in Autocrop functionality serves to insure perfectly centered logos, every time.

Some of the upgraded system features now include full PNG transparency support as well as the ability to install and access Logo Tools from a network drive.

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve received the proper authorization to begin marketing RTI Templates. As an official RTI Integration Partner, Guifx has the resources to push the hardware beyond their known limits. Templates are currently in production and are scheduled for release in September.