Susan Kare–product design lead at Pinterest and designer of Apple’s original icons and fonts–has created a new line of Jacquard-woven textiles for Areaware featuring the pixelated graphic style that ...

If you’re an old school Apple fan, you may well remember the Cairo font. Cairo shipped with every version of macOS from 1984 through System 7.1. It was computer history’s first “dingbats” font in ...

It’s a pleasure to watch Susan Kare showing how the original Macintosh worked. In an episode of Computer Chronicles from 1984, she effortlessly explains why its user experience makes so much sense. As ...

There’s no more famous name in computer icon design than Susan Kare, who remains best known for creating the famous icons for the original Macintosh. Having spent three decades working in the tech ...

Susan Kare, “Sketches for Graphic User Interface Icon” (detail) (1982), ink on graph paper, on view in ‘This Is for Everyone’ at MoMA (gift of the designer, 2015, photo by the author for Hyperallergic ...

In which we look back to Technical.ly’s 2011 interview with the Montgomery County native and iconic designer on why the original Mac fonts were named after SEPTA Regional Rail station stops. Briefly.

Susan Kare, a former Apple designer known to many as the "woman who gave the Macintosh a smile," will later this month receive an American Institute of Graphic Arts medal, an honor bestowed upon ...

Even if you’re not familiar with designer Susan Kare, you’ve been benefitting from her work for the past 30 years just about every time you use a computer. As part of the original Mac team, she ...

If you're familiar with the Apple Macintosh's iconic smiling computer icon, then you should be familiar with Susan Kare. A UI and graphic designer, Kare is the creative genius behind the smiling ...

You can buy them in the form of expensive, limited-edition jewelry and as mechanical keyboard caps. You can buy them in the form of expensive, limited-edition jewelry and as mechanical keyboard caps.

The trash can. The pouring paint can. The happy Mac. Susan Kare designed them all. In creating these and most of the other icons on the original Apple Macintosh, she established the visual language ...

Samsung’s Galaxy is bigger, lighter, and has a plastic back. Apple’s iPhone 4s is smaller, heavier, and has a glassy/metallic back. But these differences didn’t stop Susan Kare, the designer of the ...