{"id":24628,"date":"2011-11-23T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T23:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:17:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:17:53","slug":"austinkleon-the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24628 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/austinkleon-the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the\/attachment\/24629\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lv4e306s3z1qz6f4bo1_r1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/post\/13206021681\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">austinkleon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/neurotribes\/2011\/11\/22\/the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the-artist-who-gave-computing-a-human-face\/\">The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a wonderful piece on the iconographer who designed the early icons for Apple. First note: <b>Kare created a lot of these digital symbols <i>on paper<\/i><\/b>\u2014on cheap, simple paper.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inspired by the collaborative intelligence of her fellow software designers, Kare stayed on at Apple to craft the navigational elements for Mac\u2019s GUI. Because an application for designing icons on screen hadn\u2019t been coded yet, she went to the University Art supply store in Palo Alto and picked up a $2.50 sketchbook so she could begin playing around with forms and ideas. 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 \u2014 each square of graph paper representing a pixel on the screen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Second: <b>she borrowed from <i>everywhere<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Asian art history, the geeky gadgets and toys that festooned her teammates\u2019 cubicles, and the <a title=\"Hobo signs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldpath.net\/~minstrel\/hobosign.htm\">glyphs that Depression-era hobos chalked on walls<\/a> to point the way to a sympathetic household. The symbol on every Apple command key to this day \u2014 a stylized castle seen from above \u2014 was commonly used in Swedish campgrounds to denote an interesting sightseeing destination.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Thx, <a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/11\/susan-kares-sketchbook\">@kottke!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.austinkleon.com\/tagged\/susan+kare\">More on Kare\u2019s work \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>austinkleon: The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face This is a wonderful piece on the iconographer who designed the early icons for Apple. First note: Kare created a lot of these digital symbols on paper\u2014on cheap, simple paper. Inspired by the collaborative intelligence of her fellow software designers, Kare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24630,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24628\/revisions\/24630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}