Susan Kare

 Icon Designs

Susan Kare is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT the company formed by Steve Jobs. She also worked as the Creative Director during that time. She is a phenomenal woman who brought her bring ideas into some of the iconic technology we use today. She had her Ph.D and perused a career after she graduated in Museum of Modern Art. She worked for Apple and that was her biggest job thus far and she was very talented and a friend who believed in her led the way. She is the designer of many typefaces, icons, and original marketing material for the original Macintosh operating system. The unique thing about Susan was her groundbreaking work can still be seen in many computer graphics tools and accessories, especially icons such as the Lasso, the Grabber, and the Paint Bucket. Her typefaces are used in the first four generations of the Apple iPod. So in reading about Susan Kare she is very talented and intelligent through her education and work.