Susan Kare

Susan Kare (born 1954 in Ithaca, New York) is an American graphic designer. She designed for Apple in the 1980s, most icons and fonts of the original Mac OS and later many icons of Microsoft Windows and IBM OS / 2

Career

Kare made ​​in 1971 graduated from Harriton High School. 1975 was followed by a B. A. in Arts summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College. In 1978 she received his doctorate from New York University. She then moved to San Francisco and worked for an art museum.

Kare worked from January 1983 to 1986 in Apple at the icons and fonts, as well as marketing materials and the overall appearance of the newly developed Macintosh computer. For Apple Kare developed was the sans serif font "Chicago".

In 1986 she became one of the first employees to the newly founded NeXT by Steve Jobs. In 1987, she designed in Microsoft's behalf buttons, icons and other screen elements for Windows 3.0, including the playing cards for the game Solitaire that were included to Windows XP in the system file cards.dll and were replaced with Windows Vista.

Since 1988, Kare works as a freelance graphic designer.

Writings (selection )

  • Geneva (font )
  • Monaco (typeface )
  • Chicago (font )
  • New York (font )
  • San Fransisco (font )
  • Toronto (font )
  • Los Angeles (font )
  • Cairo ( font)
  • Athens ( font)

Awards

  • 2001: Chrysler Design Award
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