March 26th, 2023 at 12:33PM
powpowhammer: “willowposs: “retroactivebakeries: “through-a-historic-lens: “Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s ” #oh is it time to repost this susan kare photo...

powpowhammer:

willowposs:

retroactivebakeries:

through-a-historic-lens:

Susan Kare, the Artist who designed many of the fonts, icons, and images for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM, 1980′s

#oh is it time to repost this susan kare photo again

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Important addition y’all

Just saw her original sketchpad on graph paper at MoMA again recently. Queen shit. Here’s the placard plus photos of the actual sketchpad taken by people who weren’t trying to shoot with an android phone through a vitrine. (Image ID in alt text.)

Museum placard for the work of Susan Kare (born 1954): Graphic Icon Sketches (1982-1983) Pencil and Ink on gridded paper. To design the icons for the Macintosh System 1, Apple’s first computer-operating system, Kare used the decidedly analog method of pencil and pen on graph paper, with each square representing a single pixel. Her icons are perfect translations of various word-processing and operating functions—a pair of scissors for cutting text, a trash bin for deleted files. These pictograms were designed to be a language intelligible to users in any country—a fully intuitive graphic user interface (GUI) whose influence remains evident in today’s devices.
ID: photo of an ink sketch on graph paper. depicts a hand moving a file, with each graph paper square meant to represent a pixel. the image is a clear forerunner of turn-of-the-century digital user interface iconography.


ID: photo of ink sketches on graph paper. depicts a pointing hand with signature cuff around the wrist, a pair of scissors, and a paintbrush, with each graph paper square meant to represent a pixel. the images are clear forerunners of turn-of-the-century digital user interface iconography.


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