Celebrated computer iconographer Susan Kare is offering limited-edition prints of her famous Macintosh icons for the first time.
The signed and numbered prints include the world-famous Happy Mac icon and Moof the Dog Cow.
The prints are available from Kare Prints and range in price from $89 (8.5” x 11” edition of 200) to $499 (30” x 40” edition of 100).
Hit the link for more detailed pictures of the prints:
Kare was working as a fine arts curator when she was recruited in the early 1980s by Andy Hertzfeld, a high school friend, to design the look and feel of the first Mac, the first commercial computer with a GUI.
Influenced by road signs, her whimsical, easy-to-understand icons defined the visual language of computers for decades — the Trash Can, the Bomb, the Paint Can.
Kare went on to design the Mac’s fonts, and later went to work for Steve Jobs at NeXT. She designed icons for Microsoft’s Windows 3.0. More recently, she created a line of virtual gifts for Facebook.
Kare is widely recognized as the groundbreaking designer of graphical user interfaces, mostly because the meaning of her symbols were instantly apparent.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York praised Kare’s designs for being able to “communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style.”
Leander Kahney is the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac.
Leander is a longtime technology reporter and the author of six acclaimed books about Apple, including two New York Times bestsellers: Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products and Inside Steve’s Brain, a biography of Steve Jobs.
He’s also written a top-selling biography of Apple CEO Tim Cook and authored Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod, which both won prestigious design awards. Most recently, he was co-author of Cult of Mac, 2nd Edition.
Leander has been reporting about Apple and technology for nearly 30 years.
Before founding Cult of Mac as an independent publication, Leander was news editor at Wired.com, where he was responsible for the day-to-day running of the Wired.com website. He headed up a team of six section editors, a dozen reporters and a large pool of freelancers. Together the team produced a daily digest of stories about the impact of science and technology, and won several awards, including several Webby Awards, 2X Knight-Batten Awards for Innovation in Journalism and the 2010 MIN (Magazine Industry Newsletter) award for best blog, among others.
Before being promoted to news editor, Leander was Wired.com’s senior reporter, primarily covering Apple. During that time, Leander published a ton of scoops, including the first in-depth report about the development of the iPod. Leander attended almost every keynote speech and special product launch presented by Steve Jobs, including the historic launches of the iPhone and iPad. He also reported from almost every Macworld Expo in the late ’90s and early ‘2000s, including, sadly, the last shows in Boston, San Francisco and Tokyo. His reporting for Wired.com formed the basis of the first Cult of Mac book, and subsequently this website.
Before joining Wired, Leander was a senior reporter at the legendary MacWeek, the storied and long-running weekly that documented Apple and its community in the 1980s and ’90s.
Leander has written for Wired magazine (including the Issue 16.04 cover story about Steve Jobs’ leadership at Apple, entitled Evil/Genius), Scientific American, The Guardian, The Observer, The San Francisco Chronicle and many other publications.
Leander is an expert on:
Apple and Apple history
Steve Jobs, Jony Ive, Tim Cook and Apple leadership
Apple community
iPhone and iOS
iPad and iPadOS
Mac and macOS
Apple Watch and watchOS
Apple TV and tvOS
AirPods
Leander has a postgrad diploma in artificial intelligence from the University of Aberdeen, and a BSc (Hons) in experimental psychology from the University of Sussex.
He has a diploma in journalism from the UK’s National Council for the Training of Journalists.
Leander lives in San Francisco, California, and is married with four children. He’s an avid biker and has ridden in many long-distance bike events, including California’s legendary Death Ride.
You can find out more about Leander on LinkedIn and Facebook. You can follow him on X at @lkahney or Instagram.
23 responses to “Artist Susan Kare Is Offering Original Mac Icons As Limited Edition Prints”
What, no sad mac?
I think the dogcow is called Clarence. The noise it makes is a ‘moof’ (mixture of ‘moo’ and ‘woof’).
Nah, it’s Clarus.
Susan’s been selling these prints on her website for quite some time now — like, for more than a year. So, “for the first time” may be technically correct, but sort of tenuous.
No, it’s name is Clarus.
These are great! Just ordered 2, Mac and Watch
Thanks for this story. I just bought myself a dogcow print for my office. Too cool.
Yes, there is Sad Mac print too, on the site.
Am I the only one who thinks $89.00 is an insane price for this?
Those look like fun! I’d be too embarrassed to actually hang them in my apartment, though. ;-)
Yes, that’s Clarus the Dogcow. Mooooooof!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
As prints go, it’s not a bad price. The limited quantities are what makes this so valuable.
The Dogcow’s name is not Moof. It’s Clarus. The sound it makes is “Moof!”.