{"id":21332,"date":"2018-04-22T15:38:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-22T19:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21332"},"modified":"2018-04-22T15:38:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T19:38:25","slug":"the-woman-who-gave-the-macintosh-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/22\/the-woman-who-gave-the-macintosh-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-woman-who-gave-the-macintosh-a-smile\">Alexandra Lange<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2018\/04\/20\/kare-aiga\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/the-woman-who-gave-the-macintosh-a-smile\"><p>Paola Antonelli, the senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, was the first to physically show Kare&rsquo;s original icon sketches, in the 2015 exhibit &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/calendar\/exhibitions\/1501\">This is for Everyone<\/a>.&rdquo; &ldquo;If the Mac turned out to be such a revolutionary object&#x2013;&#x2013;a pet instead of a home appliance, a spark for the imagination instead of a mere work tool&#x2013;&#x2013;it is thanks to Susan&rsquo;s fonts and icons, which gave it voice, personality, style, and even a sense of humor. Cherry bomb, anyone?&rdquo; she joked, referring to the icon which greeted crashes in the original operating system. After working for Apple, Kare designed icons for Microsoft, Facebook, and, now, Pinterest, where she is a creative director. The mainstream presence of Pinterest, Instagram, Snapchat, emoji, and <em>GIFS<\/em> is a sign that the visual revolutionaries have won: online, we all communicate visually, piecing together sentences from tiny-icon languages.<\/p><p>Kare, who is sixty-four, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aiga.org\/medalist-susan-kare\">will be honored for her work<\/a> on April 20th, by her fellow designers, with the prestigious AIGA medal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cultofmac.com\/542963\/mac-icon-designer-susan-kare-honored-with-award\/\">Luke Dormehl<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/02\/interviews-kare-bezos-musk-felleisen-gruber\/\">Interviews: Kare, Bezos, Musk, Felleisen, Gruber<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Lange (via John Gruber): Paola Antonelli, the senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, was the first to physically show Kare&rsquo;s original icon sketches, in the 2015 exhibit &ldquo;This is for Everyone.&rdquo; &ldquo;If the Mac turned out to be such a revolutionary object&#x2013;&#x2013;a pet instead of a home appliance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-04-22T19:38:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"a38a51e5-3c7d-44d3-90d8-4d6be4dc32da","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-04-22T19:38:29Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ao4pR5Tx9RNOQ2E1r5Nwy2g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34,295,545,30,1376],"class_list":["post-21332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-graphicdesign","tag-history","tag-icons","tag-mac","tag-susan-kare"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21333,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions\/21333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}