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Macintosh Icon Designer Reflects On Her Work at Apple
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Thanks for bringing back some memories
ResEd, Fontographer and HyperCard - those were the days! I think I still have my collections on floppies in a box in the attic
ResEd, Fontographer and HyperCard - those were the days! I think I still have my collections on floppies in a box in the attic
Not if it's in you and you love what you do. Doing an icons is a great craft. You have to say a lot in a simple graphic form.
What kind of design do you do? Gotta link to your work (serious question)? I seem to recall this thread where you state you worked a tedious 3 hours. 3 hours is nothing. That alone barely covers the concepts and brainstorming.
Not judging you, but the fact that you think 3 hours is a long time to design something tells me you're not at a professional level yet. Just whipping up things (and having fun) in Photoshop at this point. Which is great, but you have to keep going and if you want to become even better. But judging by your threads, you're more into engineering and what not. So not sure if you actually plan on taking design further.
To each his own.
I used to spend hours making 16x16 and 32x32 bitmaps that would convert into repeating desktop patterns (what idiots call "wallpaper" on inferior systems.)
Nothing was ever as good as these ultra-simple icons.
I still run across stolen (old) Mac icons in the Windows world.
Nothing was ever as good as these ultra-simple icons.
I still run across stolen (old) Mac icons in the Windows world.
maybe you're not in the field of most interest to you then because I have been professional since 2005 and love every day of it, alone and in teams
Her icons have such humanity and whimsy in them. OS X icons have become too sterile and businesslike, and though one could argue that they started down this path in OS 9, NeXTSTEP really cemented (what I guess became) Steve's view that an OS needs to be REALLY SERIOUS.
I guess for many of us Macintosh old-timers, it's just a symbol of a bigger problem.
I guess for many of us Macintosh old-timers, it's just a symbol of a bigger problem.
Wonderful, for younger members here this was the 1980's, almost 30 years ago. Just try and consider the impact of seeing these icons for the first time three decades ago when there was very little like it. I still remember seeing a Mac for the first time and being completely stunned by it.
The "Happy Mac" and the bomb are the best. That takes skill.
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Well, I saw my first Mac in 2000 I think, and it was running OS 8. The icons were pretty similar.
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Yeah, for some reason, a lot of the old icons still exist in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/(contents inside). Few are used anywhere in Mac OS X, but the watch does show up except way tinier than it used to be
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Well, I saw my first Mac in 2000 I think, and it was running OS 8. The icons were pretty similar.
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Yeah, for some reason, a lot of the old icons still exist in /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/(contents inside). Few are used anywhere in Mac OS X, but the watch does show up except way tinier than it used to be
Exactly! The whole concept of "personal" computing was a new frontier and the Mac was my first experience with a human centered interface. Up to that point for me computing consisted of a blinking green insertion point on an Apple IIe writing BASIC in the High School computer lab as a summer school elective.
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.
Dogcow was the symbol and mascot of the good old days of the MacOS.
Whippersnappers! I was middle-aged when those icons first came out - and I still use them in Sheepshaver.
For those of us who used Windows growing up it will also be interesting to know that the Windows Solitaire game is also in her portfolio: http://www.kare.com/portfolio/17_microsoft_solataire.html
Maybe not anymore, but even then there were hundreds of glyphs, both in their fonts and in their apps. Graphics Design IS a full-time job, after all.
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Back in the time.....
the dreaded bomb with the numerical error code was a very compelling way to say something is wrong.....
the dreaded bomb with the numerical error code was a very compelling way to say something is wrong.....
This isn't the first post about general knowledge of Apple, and it's devices' heritage. These things are nice to know and adds weight to all the lawsuit, analyst predictions and "OMG NEW CAMERA LENS FOUND" posts that form the basis of the rumour posts.
The tagline of MacRumors is "News and Rumors you care about". So it's not all just about rumors.
Or do you just like ignoring things?
Or do you just like ignoring things?
