Filed under: Cult of Mac, Odds and ends
Moof and other Mac Icon Shirts
Susan Kare
designed the original icons for the Macintosh as well as some for many early popular software programs. She's
responsible for both the Moof the Dogcow and the error bomb icons, for instance.And now she's opened up a Cafe Press shop to sell her famous icon designs on t-shirts. Yes, you can get Moof on a t-shirt. Or the error bomb, the watch, or the alert icon.
This is definitely getting added to my wishlist. I really want a Dogcow shirt.
![TUAW [Cafepress]](http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tuaw.com/media/tuaw-cafepress-promo.png)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
EatingPie said 12:44PM on 12-21-2005
Um. The Dogcow is named Clarus, not Moof (don't feel bad, even the New York Times boned this one :) ).
For the real -- and only accurate! -- story on the history of the dogcow, check the Moof in Mind site:
http://www.storybytes.com/view-moof/articles/mim.html
-Pie
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Dan said 10:52PM on 12-21-2005
The Dogcow is named Clarus, not Moof.
I'm going to sound like a troll, but TUAW needs to step up the journalistic integrity efforts and prevent the spread of misinformation. Errors like this are too common. And don't try to hide behind "it's a blog and just for fun." With high reader subscription comes responsibility.
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Per Arne Flatberg said 2:38AM on 12-22-2005
In defence of the blog: The commercial site labels the Clarus-stuff as moof. It might well be that Susan Hare actually called or calls Clarus Moof.
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EatingPie said 11:52AM on 12-22-2005
Well, I knew this would get several of the same comments, ie the Dogcow is named Clarus.
What if I told you there are two others? Moofo (with an "o" on the end) the psychic dogcow, and Lackey the obnoxious talisman dogcow. Both used internally at Apple Developer/Tech Support.
And Susan Kare (with a "K" not an "H" :) ) -- by her own admission -- knows the dogcow is called Clarus, but says "I kind of like 'Moof.'" Didn't say she uses Moof, but she does like it.
Do not doubt Pie's intelligence... or... er... reference material.
(You'd think these bloggers would hire someone to do a writeup on this stuff... hint hint! Um... for millions of dollars of course. hint hint hint.)
http://www.storybytes.com/view-moof/articles/mim.html
NOTE: the previous post had a bad link caused by the blog software, it ends in ".html" so if there are other characters after, delete those and you got it.
-Pie
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