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Susan Kare
Kare in 2019
Born
(1954-02-05) February 5, 1954 (age 70)
Ithaca, New York, U.S.
Education
Mount Holyoke College (BA) New York University (MA, PhD)
Occupation
Graphic designer
Known for
Contemporary American design
Notable work
GUI design language and product launch of the Macintosh
Spouse
Jay Tannenbaum
(div. 2011)
Children
3
Website
kare.com
Susan Kare (/kɛər/ "care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the first Apple Macintosh personal computer from 1983 to 1986.[1] She was employee #10 and Creative Director at NeXT, the company formed by Steve Jobs after he left Apple in 1985. She was a design consultant for Microsoft, IBM, Sony Pictures, Facebook, and Pinterest. As of 2023[update] Kare was an employee of Niantic Labs.[2] As a pioneer of pixel art and of the graphical computer interface, she has been celebrated as one of the most significant designers of modern technology.[3]
^Kare, Susan. "Design Biography". Susan Kare. Archived from the original on 2007-12-22. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
^Wolf, Ron. "The mother of the Mac trash can". San Jose Mercury News. Archived from the original on July 1, 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2007.
^McLaughlin, Aimée (2018-02-05). "The most influential female designers of the last century". Design Week. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
SusanKare (/kɛər/ "care"; born February 5, 1954) is an American artist and graphic designer, who contributed interface elements and typefaces for the...
version was programmed by Wes Cherry, and the cards were designed by SusanKare. Microsoft has included the game as part of its Windows product line since...
one only on the left. The ⌘ symbol (the "looped square") was chosen by SusanKare after Steve Jobs decided that the use of the Apple logo in the menu system...
user-available form. New York (1984, by SusanKare), a serif font. Toronto (1984, SusanKare) Athens (1984, SusanKare), slab serif. Hoefler Text (1991, Jonathan...
Apple II. In the early 1980s, he invited his high school friend, artist SusanKare, to join Apple in order to help design what would become standard Macintosh...
by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes designed by Jim Lyles designed by SusanKare designed by Tobias Benjamin Köhler designed by George Williams designed...
in 1988 by the intern Wes Cherry. The card deck itself was designed by SusanKare, who was known for her work on icon designs for the original Macintosh...
language. MacPaint's user interface was designed by SusanKare, also a member of the Macintosh team. Kare also beta-tested MacPaint before release. MacPaint...
Berkeley in 1984. Kare was the brother of SusanKare, designer of the fonts and icons of the original Apple Macintosh user interface. Kare worked for many...
documented in Technote #31. In 1983, the dog icon had been created by SusanKare as the glyph for "z", as part of the Cairo font. Later, when redesigning...
Chicago (pre-Mac OS 9 system font, still included with Mac OS X) Designer: SusanKare Adobe Clean - Adobe's now standard GUI and icon font Class: Humanist,...
61, ISBN 978-3319713496, online, p. 61, at Google Books Kare, Susan (7 June 2014). "SusanKare, Iconographer (EG8)". Vimeo.com. Retrieved 25 June 2014...
of the classic Mac OS were all combined into one small Desk Accessory. SusanKare designed the interface for the original control panel, and tried to make...
development, having been the technical lead for System 7 for the Macintosh; and SusanKare designed new vector graphics-based iconography, having designed the original...
board. Porat, Hertzfeld and Atkinson were soon joined at General Magic by SusanKare, Joanna Hoffman (vice president of marketing), hardware pioneer Dr. Wendell...
including Joanna Hoffman, Bud Tribble, George Crow, Rich Page, Susan Barnes, SusanKare, and Dan'l Lewin. After consulting with major educational buyers...
Ruarte, Vic Zauderer, Dianna Mullins, Raj Narayan, Rebecca Bogle Arora, SusanKare, Emmanuel Job and Samir Arora. The company originally was founded as a...
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