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LEMELSON CENTER — Susan Kare, Iconic Designer
Susan Kare designed the distinctive icons, typefaces, and other graphic elements that gave the Apple Macintosh its characteristic—and widely emulated—look and feel.
Susan Kare | 2018 AIGA Medalist Video
The New Yorker — The Woman who Gave the Macintosh a Smile
Kare brought a Grid notebook to her job interview at Apple Computer. On its pages, she had sketched, in pink marker, a series of icons to represent the commands that Hertzfeld’s software would execute. Each square represented a pixel. A pointing finger meant “Paste.” A paintbrush symbolized “MacPaint.”
Susan Kare, John Gruber — Layers Conference 2015
Fast Company — Apple’s “Pirates Of Silicon Valley” Flag Gets Rehoisted
by John Brownlee One of the most definitive and defiant pieces of counterculture art to ever come out of Silicon Valley is now available for purchase. Susan Kare—the designer behind all of the Mac’s beloved early iconography, as well as its prominent typefaces like Chicago—has recreated the Pirates of Silicon Valley flag, which was used to inspire the original Macintosh team as they worked to create the first graphical user interface-driven personal computer in history. Read more on Fast Company.