San Francisco, CA (BUSINESS WIRE) 29 November 2011

Susan Kare, the famous Silicon Valley, interface designer, today unveiled a new book, Susan Kare: Symbols, founded with 80 of her most famous icons from 1983 – 2011. The book contains a number of original symbols, including Apple Bomb, watch the cursor with a smile and Macintosh, in 1983 and 2011 Dogcowand moof at the height of the icon Steve Jobs, among others.

Kare is the designer of many? Symbols, fonts and graphics that are seen daily by millions of early 1980, in command of the Apple symbol on the keyboard for more than 1,000 Facebook virtual gifts with design work for companies such as PayPal, Glam Media, Microsoft and Fossil.

In 1984, one of the most promising artist Susan Kare Mac team soon, the original eye-catching icons for Mac were created hired, says Steve Silberman, editor of Wired magazine, who wrote the foreword to the book icon Kares. Gestures and metaphors of computer icons seem so natural and easy to us now that is strange, navigating to remember the digital world in a different way. Susan’s work has a lasting effect, and this book is long.

about the book

Susan Kare: Icon is a 160-page, 7×7 inch soft-cover book with Mac Smiling on the cover. Each book will sell for $ 39.95, and signed by the artist. ICONS offers a curated look at 80 favorite icons from Kara is created between 1983 and 2011. Magnified view allows the reader to see how symbols are created, pixel by pixel, with the accompanying notes author chosen images. The book also shows symbols to their normal size and has an introductory essay by Steve Silberman, “Indicators of the New Space.” Susan Kare: Icons are exclusively sold online at http://www.kareprints.com.

designers want Mac fans and computer geeks, some of her most memorable print icon (or would like to receive as a gift) to purchase. Was developed by a handful of pixels, Karen created a visual metaphor for commands from a computer that is part of the visual language of the computer, knows almost everyone who looks at the screen.

Susan Kare PRINT

gicl all? e Prints (Prints produced on ink jet printers) with the help of archival pigment inks and 100% rag paper. Prints in the size of 8.5 x 11 inches to 30 x cm and are more, 40 separate pictures available on request. There is a limited edition of each print size, and each is checked, signed and numbered personally Susan Kare. Icons offered cover a wide spectrum of their work from the classic computer-interface elements and familiar digital Solitaire cards, various iconic photographs from the Facebook virtual gifts such as a love letter, disco ball and a cup of coffee titled “Caffeine series of bad habits images for the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Susan Kare

Susan Kare User Interface Graphics is a digital design practice in San Francisco, California. Her high school friend, Susan Kare, Andy Hertzfeld recruited for Apple Computer, Inc., worked in early 1980, initially in a group like the Macintosh graphical user interface design and lettering.? His business cards read “Macintosh artist.” After her time at Apple, Steve Jobs took the Karen? NeXT computer as a creative director, and hired her hero, Paul Rand design to create a different logo.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Susan Kare, a pioneer iconographer and most influential computer. Since 1983, developed Kare thousands of icons on the world’s leading technology companies. Built with a minimalist grid of pixels with mosaic and precision, they communicate with symbols of their functions immediately and memorably, with wit and style.

Kara graduated from Mount Holyoke College and received MA and Ph.D. Degree from New York University. An avid surfer and skier, lives in Northern California with her three sons and two Australian Shepherds.

books and prints are available on http://www.kareprints.com

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