Ph.D. Art graduate Kare, a native New Yorker, got a job with Apple through a friend from high school who worked for the company and recommended her to his colleagues. This is where Kare would really start to shine by designing typefaces, interfaces and her now trademark "cute" icons and logos with which she found a way to be very simplistic whilst still managing to keep said icons memorable.
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| A selection of Kare's classic Apple Macintosh logos. |
Karen has since gone on to design for more well known companies including Facebook and has still kept her close ties with Apple by designing for their latest iPhones (the app "Karma Jar").
As her official biography states on her official site:
...good icons should be like road signs than illustrations, easily comprehensible, and not cluttered with extraneous detail.
I adore Kare's icons and general style of work. The way she allows so much simplicity in her work is very brave and shows that she is a confident designer who has found her own signature and "what works well for her".
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