Susan Kare (born 1954) is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT (the company formed by Steve Jobs after leaving Apple in 1985), working as the Creative Director.^[1] Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ... A graphical user interface (GUI, often pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer and computer-controlled devices which employ graphical icons, visual indicators or special graphical elements called widgets, along with text labels or text navigation to represent the information and... The Macintosh 128K, the first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac Mac (formerly Macintosh) is a range of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Inc. ... Look up Next in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24, 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. ...

Background

Kare was born in Ithaca, New York and is the sister of rocket scientist and filker Jordin Kare. She received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Art from Mount Holyoke College in 1975 and her Ph.D. from New York University in 1978. She next moved to San Francisco and worked for an art museum. The City of Ithaca (named for the Greek island of Ithaca) sits on the southern shore of Cayuga Lake, in Central New York State. ... NY redirects here. ... Filk is a musical culture, genre, and community tied to science fiction/fantasy fandom, active since the early 1950s if concentrated primarily since the mid-1970s. ... Jordin Kare (1956– ) is a rocket scientist, physicist, and aerospace engineer known for his research on laser propulsion. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts womens college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution in New York City. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

The "Happy Mac" icon, one of Susan Kare's designs

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Apple Computer Inc.

Kare joined Apple Inc. after receiving a call from her high school friend, Andy Hertzfeld, in the early 1980s. She worked for Apple from 1983 to 1986. She is the designer of many typefaces, icons, and original marketing material for the original Macintosh OS. Indeed, descendants of her groundbreaking work can still be seen in many computer graphics tools and accessories, especially icons such as the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket. An early pioneer of pixel art, her most recognizable works from her time with Apple are the Chicago typeface (the most prominent user interface typeface seen in Classic Mac OS, as well as the typeface used in the first three generations of the Apple iPod interface), the Geneva typeface, Clarus the Dogcow, the Happy Mac (the smiling computer that welcomed Mac users when starting their machines for 18 years, until Mac OS X 10.2 replaced it with a grey Apple logo), and the symbol on the Command key on Apple keyboards (also known as the Apple key). Apple Inc. ... Andy Hertzfeld (born April 6, 1953), was a key member of the original Apple Macintosh development team, and some would consider him a pioneer among software engineers. ... For the origin and evolution of fonts, see History of western typography. ... The Macintosh 128K, the first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac Mac (formerly Macintosh) is a range of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Inc. ... An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... This monster (The Gunk) is an example of pixel art drawn using Microsoft Paint. ... Chicago is a sans-serif font designed by Susan Kare for Apple Computer. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... iPod (fifth generation) in Apple Universal Dock, iPod nano (second generation) and iPod shuffle (second generation) iPod is a brand of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple and launched in 2001. ... A sample of the Geneva typeface. ... Clarus the Dogcow The Dogcow is a bitmapped image first introduced by Apple Inc. ... The Happy Mac icon A Happy Mac is the normal bootup (startup) icon of an Apple Macintosh computer running older versions of the Mac OS operating system. ... The Command key The Command key, known as the open-Apple key in documentation previous to the Apple Macintosh family of computers, is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards. ...

After Apple

After leaving Apple, Kare joined NeXT as the Creative Director. She later became a successful independent graphic designer working with clients such as Microsoft and IBM. Her projects for Microsoft included the card deck for Windows 3.0's solitaire game, as well as numerous icons and design elements for Windows 3.0. Many of her icons, such as those for Notepad and various Control Panels, remained essentially unchanged by Microsoft until Windows XP. For IBM she produced icons and design elements for OS/2; for Eazel she contributed iconography to the Nautilus file manager. Look up Next in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Graphic design is the applied art of arranging image and text to communicate a message. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... International Business Machines Corporation (known as IBM or Big Blue; NYSE: IBM) is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA. The company is one of the few information technology companies with a continuous history dating back to the 19th century. ... Windows 3. ... Klondike is a solitaire card game often known purely by the name of Solitaire. ... For the item of stationery, see notebook. ... Control Panel in Windows Vista Control Panel in Windows XP Classic View of the Control Panel in Windows XP Control Panel is a part of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface which allows users to view and manipulate basic system settings and controls, such as adding hardware, adding and removing... Windows XP is a line of proprietary operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. ... OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. ... Eazel was a computer software company based in Mountain View, California. ... Nautilus is the official file manager for the GNOME desktop. ...

The Museum of Modern Art store in New York City has begun carrying stationery and notebooks featuring her designs. Beginning February 7, 2007 she has produced icons for the Valentine's Day "Gifts" feature of the popular social-networking website, Facebook. Profits from gift sales are donated to the 'Susan G Komen for the Cure' foundation, for the fight against breast cancer. After Valentine's Day, the gift selection was modified to include new and limited edition gifts that did not necessarily pertain to Valentine's Day. View across garden, in new MoMA building by Yoshio Taniguchi. ... Nickname: Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1625 Government  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area  - City  468. ... February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... Facebook is a social networking website. ...

References

External links

Biographies and history of the Macintosh

• Biography from original website
• Interview for History of the Macintosh website — Stanford University
• Designer Susan Kare Gives Pixels Personality — Mount Holyoke College
• Interview — The Guardian

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Fonts

• Kare's fonts — Facebook