MoMA Recognizes Susan Kare, The Designer Of The Macintosh's Original Icons

Kare's success proves that not only is great design universal, it often happens in spite of things like credentials and direct experience.

Susan Kare — the pioneering graphic designer whose pixel art icons for the original Macintosh helped define the language of graphical user interfaces (GUIs) — is being recognized by the New York Museum of Modern Art. Her archive of graph paper drawings sketching out her ideas for the original Macintosh interface have been acquired by the MoMA as part of the new exhibition, This is for Everyone: Design Experiments For The Common Good.

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