In the 1980s, artist Susan Kare put a human face on the Apple Macintosh, designing the icons and typefaces that revolutionized how we interact with computers.

Now she’s once again bridging the digital and physical worlds with a new collection of artwork, Esc Keys, launching at London’s Asprey Studio as part of Frieze London.

“I was a typical art kid who liked to paint and all kinds of crafts, and never imagined I would want to work for a Fortune 500 manufacturing company,” Kare said at Tuesday’s launch event for Esc Keys.

After studying art history and studio art, Kare was working in a store when a high school friend who was working as a programmer at Apple approached her for “a secret project he was working on,” she explained. “And one thing led to another, and I ended up with a job to do the graphics and icons for the Macintosh.”

As well as creating famous icons like the “Happy Mac” that greeted users when the Macintosh booted up, Kare was responsible for Apple’s famous Chicago typeface and the cards for Microsoft Wind

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Author: Stephen Graves