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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.
WIRED — Meet the Woman Who Launched a Billion Clicks
Designer Susan Kare is the icon of icons. Her presence, as screen graphics and digital font designer at Apple in the '80s, helped establish the paradigm of icons as a navigational tool in graphical user interfaces.
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Laughing Squid — The Design Sketches of Apple Macintosh Icon Designer Susan Kare
Steve Silberman of NeuroTribes has posted a fascinating article about graphic designer Susan Kare, the icon and font designer for the original 1984 Apple Macintosh graphical user interface.