Susan Kare Mac Icons

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Mac icons for early Macintosh computers; courtesy of Susan Kare. The bomb, which denotes “total system failure” (and still sends chills down the spines of old-time programmers), was assigned to Kare with 32x32 pixel constraints: Source: Andy Hertzfeld. Kare was also tasked with creating new font sets for the Macintosh.

  1. The original Happy Mac was designed by chief Mac iconist Susan Kare in November 1983. She translated standard desk items into beautiful little bitmap icons.
  2. Susan Kare is offering signed and numbered prints of the original Mac OS icons she designed back in 1983. Susan Kare is offering signed and numbered prints of the original Mac OS icons she. Recently announced on AIGA's website, Kare is being recognized for the 'bold and intelligent' icons, user interface graphics and fonts introduced with Apple.
  3. May: 2014, Susan Kare walks us through some key points regarding the design of icons and symbols. Kare is an artist and designer and pioneer of pixel art; she created many of the graphical interface elements for the original Apple Macintosh in the 1980s as a key member of the Mac software design team, and continued to work as Creative Director at NeXT for Steve Jobs.
  4. #studio64podcasts #socialtechpioneersSocial Tech Pioneers: Susan Kare Apple Mac Icon Designer Tribute Supertramp Dreamer: https://www.youtube.com/w.

Hand Painted Pirate Flag

Each flag is a hand-painted (acrylic paint on a black canvas flag with grommets) re-creation of the flag that flew over Bandley 3, the Macintosh building at Apple, Inc. in 1983. Susan Kare painted the original in response to one of Steve Job’s slogans at a Macintosh offsite: “It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy.”

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Gift Card

Need a perfect gift for the geek, colleague, loved one, or Mac aficionado in your life? A Kare Prints digital gift card let's them choose their favorite icon print. Gift cards are available in multiple denominations and never expire.

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Hand Painted Japanese Woodcut Print

Each Japanese woodcut print is hand-painted in watercolor (primarily in a combination of blues and greens) by Susan Kare; each is a unique original. The black and white image appeared on the Apple MacPaint box in 1984, and the woodcut is shown within the MacPaint interface.

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About Susan Kare

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Susan Kare is a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. Since 1983, the San Francisco-based designer has designed thousands of software icons that have become familiar to anyone who uses a computer. Designed on a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their functions immediately and memorably.

The prints in these editions feature some of her best-known and favorite icons.

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Cairo Throw

The original emoji, Cairo was a typeface designed by Susan Kare in 1984 for the first Macintosh operating system. Kare designed this woven blanket for the Jacquard loom, an early example of computer-controlled machinery, operated with punched cards and invented by Joseph Jacquard in 1801.

Since 2014, Susan Kare has collaborated with Areaware on a variety of products such as this unique throw, bitmap textiles and solitaire cards.

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