Sketchbook Icons

Jan 22, 2012

Susan Kare’s pixel work at Apple has always been iconic, but we finally get to see the sketches and prototypes into making some of the most memorable designs that have lasted even to this day. The metaphors for some of these icons seem so basic now, and we have Susan to thank for pushing these forward in Apple’s 1984 Macintosh release; she’s been described as the “Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face”.

“In the pages of this sketchbook, which hardly anyone but Kare has seen before now, she created the casual prototypes of a new, radically user-friendly face of computing — each square of graph paper representing a pixel on the screen.”