Perhaps Apple should hire the original designers to come up with a consistent interface for OS X...
Kinda makes me wish there was a "classic" theme to OSX. Anyone remember changing the sounds of functions like emptying the trash? In the early '90s, I had Oscar the Grouch singing "I LOOOOOVE trash". For another, can't remember if it was the error noise or new mail, I had Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Your clothes, give them to me, now!". So much fun!
I miss Oscar the Grouch singing to me when I emptied my trash...
The Mac IIsi was my first Mac. I wasted many an hour recording and editing sounds to assign them to actions. Those were the days ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key#Origin_of_the_symbol
Kinda makes me wish there was a "classic" theme to OSX. Anyone remember changing the sounds of functions like emptying the trash?
My personal hero is the Apple artist who designed Clarus the Dogcow. Was that also Susan Kare?
Dogcow was the symbol and mascot of the good old days of the MacOS.
Now with retina level screens icons have to be 1024x1024 works of art.
It's a much harder job today.
Nice Work Susan Kare.
Now with retina level screens icons have to be 1024x1024 works of art.
It's a much harder job today.
You don't know if they'll be used on the next product. ie. You might be working at Apple as a graphics designer but you never know if your work will be used. Hell, they might throw out the entire Mac plan, especially being how fragile the company was back then.
So there is a person at Apple, who's only job is to design LOGO's???
FREAKIN AWESOME!!!
How so? The tools and constraints are different, and more pixels != more difficult.
Quite the contrary, the constraints imposed by the old GUI were much more restrictive.Nice Work Susan Kare.
It's great that she pioneered computer graphic design and had the chance for so many people to see and enjoy her work.
Now with retina level screens icons have to be 1024x1024 works of art.
It's a much harder job today.
ResEdit. Image
Are you really saying that it would be hard to create a 32 x 32 pixel icon than a 1024 x 1024 one?
Our tools have improved, I'll grant you that but there is just more to quality control with a larger canvas.
I loved doing that. Plus constantly screwing around with control panel settings, editing the system file and juggling extensions. Does anyone remember the name of that program for editing system files? The icon was a jack in the box popping out of a mac.
Art is not poverty, check out Feng Zhu, he is on a 7 figure salary as a concept artist. It is a specialised field just as brain surgeon is. Not many people can do it so you can name your price.
I am on a high pay cheque for my graphic talent. It is easy to decline people who don't want to pay much because they have to settle with lower quality work or pay for what they desire.
Suddenly I miss Macbugs!
http://www.mobygames.com/game/macbugs
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I would go to coworkers computers and change the error beep to:
"I can't let you do that, Dave".
The shrieks were...enjoyable.