Susan Kare Review by Nicole Edwards 1/15/14

Susan Kare is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s.  She was born on April 6, 1954.  She has created thousands of icons and in 2001 was named the recipient of the Chrysler design award.  Susan Kare is best known for the “trash icon”, she is called the "The mother of the Mac trash can"

In a New York Times article from 7/6/13, Susan Kare stated that Paul Rand is a graphic design hero of hers.  She listens to Al Green, she follows Reddit’s “Ask me anything” feature and she enjoyed the TV series “the Wire”.

This is a quote from Susan Kare when asked if she had any feeling at the time that the work she was doing at Apple would be so pervasively influential.  “You can set out to make a painting, but you can’t set out to make a great painting," she said. "If you look at that blank canvas and say, 'Now I’m going to create a masterpiece’--that’s just foolhardy. You just have to make the best painting you can, and if you’re lucky, people will get the message."

Currently, she is the head of a digital design practice in San Francisco and sells signed prints at www.kareprints.com 

Below are some of the icons she created.