Notes on Icons and Design with Susan Kare

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Susan Kare, designer of the original Macintosh icons and typefaces, talks about icons and design in an event from the Letterform Archive. She discusses her approach to making small pictograms and her career.

HN people share it as a recent, first-hand talk by Susan Kare, whose work gave the Macintosh its friendly look.

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@chazeon2024 · in “Notes on Icons and Design with Susan Kare (2020) [video]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@danybittel2021 · in “The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile (2018)”
She gave a great talk recently: ▶ this video
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@ngcc_hk2025 · in “Susan Kare demonstrating the Macintosh Interface in 1984”
▶ this video Some later video … several years ago ?