Susan kare Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Susan Kare likes iOS 7's icons

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 13th, 2013)

Susan Kare may not be a household name, but her work has likely graced your computer at some point in time. Though she is best known for her icon design work on the original Apple Macintosh computer, she has also designed icons for other well-known companies like PayPal, Facebook and Microsoft. ...

Macintosh icon designer talks about her work at Apple

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 19th, 2013)

Path has a nice interview with Susan Kare, a graphic designer and creator of the original Macintosh icons and typefaces that so many of us are familiar with. Kare reveals that she first came to work at Apple with the title "Macintosh Artist." She got the job through a high school friend, Andy ...

Walls360 offers Susan Kare icons for your walls

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 11th, 2013)

Walls360 is a cool startup in Las Vegas that makes high-quality (but affordable) wall art. They've got the license to some great properties, like Star Trek, Plants vs. Zombies and a host of children's books, and now they are offering nearly all of the icon artwork produced by famed designer ...

Joseph Wain designs near-ubiquitous iOS icons

by Steven Sande (Oct 18th, 2012)

Chances are very good that almost any iOS app you use contains icons that were designed by one man -- Joseph Wain. Wain doesn't work for Apple and never has. Instead, he's a designer who was impressed at an early age by the work of seminal Apple and NeXT icon designer Susan Kare, but not ...

Inside Susan Kare's 'iconic' sketchbooks

by Mike Schramm (Nov 23rd, 2011)

We've mentioned Susan Kare and her work on the site before, but it's a story that's always worth repeating: She's the woman behind some of Apple's most iconic, well, icon designs. Kare was working as a curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco when her friend Andy Hertzfeld asked her to ...