![](http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/002/404/profile_susan_kare.jpg)
the icon of icons. i recently ran across some articles on the "mother of the mac trash can," susan kare, a graphic artist that designed so many of the original mac icons and typefaces. they're so simple, so pixelated, yet so memorable, effective, and witty! remember these?
![](http://www.kare.com/images/portfolio_2.gif)
![](http://www.kare.com/portfolio/images/IBM.gif)
![](http://www.kare.com/portfolio/images/fonts03.gif)
![](http://www.kare.com/portfolio/images/microsoft.gif)
now her work, based of out sf, includes those clever little facebook icons posted all over your and your friends' walls; those cute little chumbys; and other graphic work for software and websites. WOW!
![](http://www.kare.com/portfolio/images/01_4Facebook.gif)
![](http://www.kare.com/portfolio/images/1_1Chumby.gif)
2 comments:
this is such an inspirational post... geez. your blog makes me jealous, hah. =)
I love Susan. One of her sons, Harry, worked at the Harputs adidas store before he started going to UCLA.
You should add her on facebook, she's a lovely human being!!
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