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# The pixel art of Susan Kare made Apple’s computers personal
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/the-pixel-art-of-susan-kare-made-apples-computers/
- Published: 2011-11-29T18:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:29:25.000Z
- Description: A recent blog post by Steve Silberman admired the sketchbook of Susan Kare, the artist responsible for all those classic Macintosh icons. Kare’s sketches played a big role in making computers more friendly for everybody, as illustrated by her iconic smiling Mac. The genius of Steve Jobs, Jef Raskin
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/files/2011/11/boot.jpg)

A recent blog post by Steve Silberman admired the sketchbook of Susan Kare, the artist responsible for all those classic Macintosh icons. Kare’s sketches played a big role in making computers more friendly for everybody, as illustrated by her iconic [smiling Mac](http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/files/2011/11/HappyMac.jpg?ref=killscreen.com).

> *The genius of Steve Jobs, [Jef Raskin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef%5FRaskin?ref=killscreen.com), and the rest of the Mac team was recognizing a huge untapped market for home computing among artists, musicians, writers, and other creative weirdos who might never have cared enough to master the arcane complexities of a command-line UI…*

Source: [NeuroTribes](http://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/11/22/the-sketchbook-of-susan-kare-the-artist-who-gave-computing-a-human-face/?ref=killscreen.com)

*\-Jason Johnson*