Susan Kare (born February 5, 1954) is an artist and graphic designer who created many interface and typography elements for Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. He is also the Creative Director (and one of the original employees) at NeXT, a company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985. He has worked for Microsoft and IBM, and, more recently, Pinterest and Facebook.
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Kare was born in Ithaca, New York, and the younger brother of aerospace engineer Jordin Kare. He graduated from Harriton High School in 1971, graduated summa cum laude with B.A. in Art from Mount Holyoke College in 1975, and received his Ph.D. from New York University in 1978. He subsequently moved to San Francisco and worked at the Museum of Fine Arts. She is married, and has three children.
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Apple Career
Kare joined Apple Computer after receiving a call from a high school friend, Andy Hertzfeld in the early 1980s. As a member of the original Apple Macintosh design team, he worked at Apple starting in 1982 (Badge # 3978). Kare was initially employed into a group of Macintosh software to design user interface graphs and fonts; his business card read "HI Macintosh Artist". Later, he was the Creative Director at Apple Creative Services who worked for the organization's Director, Tom Suiter.
She is the designer of original typography, icons and marketing materials for the original Macintosh operating system. The descendants of his innovative work can still be seen in many computer graphics tools and accessories, especially icons like Lasso, Grabber, and Paint Bucket. This design creates the first visual language for Apple's new point-and-click computing.
Kare is the earliest pioneer of pixel art. His most recognizable works of his time with Apple are the Chicago typeface (the most prominent type of user interface seen in the classic Mac OS interface of System 1 in 1984, to Mac OS9 in 1999, as well as the typeface used in the first four generations from the Apple iPod interface); Geneva typeface; monograph of the original face of Monaco; "Clarus the Dogcow"; the "Happy Mac" icon (a smiley computer that welcomes Mac users when starting their machine), and a Command key symbol on the Apple keyboard.
After Apple
After leaving Apple, Kare joins NeXT as a designer, working with clients like Microsoft and IBM. The project for Microsoft includes a deck of cards for Windows 3.0 solitaire games, as well as various icons and design elements for Windows 3.0. Many of the icons, such as Notepad and various Control Panel, remain unchanged by Microsoft to Windows XP. For IBM, it generates icons and design elements for OS/2; for Eazel he gives an iconography to the Nautilus file manager.
In 2003, he became a member of the Glam Media advisory board (now Media Mode).
Between 2006 and 2010 he produced icons for the "Gift" feature of Facebook. Initially, the profits from the sale of the gift were donated to Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. After Valentine's Day 2007, the prize selection has been modified to include new and limited edition gifts that may not necessarily be related to Valentine's Day. One of the gift icons, titled "Big Kiss" is also featured in some versions of Mac OS X as a picture of a user account.
In 2007 he designed identities, icons and websites for Chumby Industries, Inc. and their internet alarm clock which the interface is also designed.
Since 2008, the Museum of Modern Art stores in New York City have been carrying stationery and notebooks featuring the designs. In 2015 MoMA also acquired a notebook sketch that caused the initial Mac icon.
In August 2012, he was called as an expert witness by Apple in a patent infringement trial against a Samsung industry competitor (see Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. ).
In 2015, Kare was hired by Pinterest as the product design leader. In 2010, he headed the digital design practice in San Francisco and sold the limited edition, signed the artwork.
In recognition of his design work, Kare was awarded the American Institute of Graphic Arts in April 2018.
References
External links
- Official website
- Font created by Kare
- Quinn, Michelle (January 25, 1995). "Art That Clicks: Icon designer strives for simplicity". San Francisco Chronicle .
- Penfold, Mark (September 30, 2005). "Design Icons: Mac Icons". Computer Art Magazine . Ã,
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