Catching up with Mac icon creator Susan Kare: behind the smile.(Mac Beat)

Maybe it's not that surprising that the Mac has spent the past 20 years developing a passionate following even among people without much interest in computers. After all, the icons and fonts that first attracted many of these technophobes to the Mac were designed by a person who also wasn't particularly interested in computers.

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In 1983, Susan Kare had both an M.A. and a Ph.D. in fine arts from New York University. Out of the blue, she got a call from Andy Hertzfeld--a high-school friend who had become a programmer at Apple Computer. He asked whether she would be ...

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