Overview

Gender

female

Susan Kare is a computer iconographer. Since 1983, she has designed thousands of software icons that have become familiar to anyone who uses a computer. Designed on a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their functions immediately and memorably.

Susan Kare is the creative director at Chumby, and she is responsible for on and offscreen graphic design. She created the interface graphics for the original Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows 3.0, and is a recipient of the Chrysler Design Award. Clients of her design practice have included Autodesk, Facebook, Getty Images, Glam Media, Hyperion, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Motorola, Nokia, San Francisco Water & Power, Siebel, Swatch, and Weatherbug.

Susan Kare recently created a line of retail products for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She currently resides in San Francisco, California.