She is Pam from The office

Been watching a load of retro tech videos from the early 80s recently and then stumbled on this program called The Computer Chronicles which has helped me relax and I put it on to relax and shut my critical mind off before bed and think more simply. Anyways I saw an episode where she explained the icons and the updates and meanings and was just enhanced with her feminine essence and absolute class - a type of woman I wish there was more of. Someone in the replies of one of the episodes said she was still working and another mentioned there was a documentary and that fascinated me. Now I'm here and I'm once again amazed at her beauty and creative elegance while also having a really cool perspective on design. I love her slightly off handed comment about the concept of having full color detailed photos of kids crossing the street but being able to pretty much convey anyone's face in 32x32. For me as a kid growing up in the 90s I loved my Gameboy Camera and still have one I use to this day as well as several applications which try to replicate it but fail to do so. It was the world's smallest digital camera at the time and had this little awful but cool thermal paper printer that was like receipt paper with bad layering that I've still never had. But there's a style and charm in that program made by the creators while not all the applications are created equally the camera still holds up and I love the audio and design work for the UI and unique creative TRUE lo-fidelity audio of the 8 bit era. Something about her explaining the artwork reminded me of of those monochrome and early color (no backlight) Gameboy games and the Gameboy Camera. A few years ago I interviewed the artist Disasterpeace, I THINK it's still on this channel but otherwise it's in the KZbin ether on my other channel(s) and he did the soundtracks for a load of games including the highly acclaimed FEZ which has beautiful pixel art from Phil Fish that took 8-bit style pixel art and played with the idea of 4 dimensions simply by a camera rotation effect and changing each screen to have continuity of the scene but maintain the puzzle platforming element. Anyways his music is adaptive audio and very beautiful and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to RELAX and think differently. If you play it in context of the game it's an even better experience but the arrangements on mp3 are fantastic on their own without contextual adaptation. Anyways long story long he explained to me how he found so much creativity by working with often self-imposed limitations and that always stuck with me since then. Funny thing is he has done dozens and dozens of hit games and Hollywood film scores now and I just has this little idea to send a reply to his recent tweet (despite me being a nobody) and I didn't expect any response but I thought JUST ASK. I sent a singular tweet and took a nap. Later I woke up and he had replied to me saying sure and messaged me to check out his previous intros so I didn't answer the obvious questions he gets all the time. I researched for hours listening to the interviews he did and the games and movies he worked on and made a unique interview on alchemy in music and magic and I was pretty nervous interviewing him since it was my first interview since dropping out of radio school at the turn of the millennium as the medium failed. Once in a while I go back and listen to it and appreciate that he said yes because it led me to meeting dozens and dozens of amazing artists and doing several podcasts - none of which were hugely successful but are all time capsules are creative expressions that are nice to know exist out there. Reduction and limitation can be freeing and creative with the tools you have while having the ability to work with a much wider set of tools.

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"A "meta" project," in other words, a "dead" project... "Meta" is pronounced like the feminine form of the Hebrew word for "dead"."

You don’t need to be smrt, talented, or even competent for that matter, to be a good designer. The only thing you need to be a good designer is to be a _“not-asshoIe.”_ As long as you treat people (society, environment, world, &c…) with dignity and respect, your solutions will be fine. Conversely, if you you’re *not* a _“not-asshoIe,”_ it doesn’t matter how smart or talented you are. Everything you do will be ultimately self-defeating. Dean, C.T. (2014)

Many of the sources provided here as evidence are not only pathetically unreliable tosh, but often also self contradictory. Jews didn’t invent the alphabet. There is vast amounts of evidence proving the Moses myth is a plagiarised fiction based on the very real historical figure Gudea of Lagash. Museums around the world creak under the weight of genuine artefacts from still extant temples in Sumer/Akkad which were built to house tablets inscribed with codes of law that leaders reported they had received in dreams from gods hand written by silver stylus. Gudea is recorded as having transported these law code tablets in ark built of cedar, wrapped in precious metal, under a ritually sacred tent, to the place designated for a temple to be constructed to house them. These temples are also available to see with own eyes. There isn’t even any credible extra biblical evidence to support the existence of an ancient ‘kingdom’ of Israel or Judah. None..

don't like the quote 提笔忘字 but to ensure the confidentiality of certain informations, i guess a lot of people will have some sort of mental illness such as dementia, Alzheimer or even Schizophrenia. etc : (

So much of modern communications have roots in descions that Susan made!

Susan's story about failure is very much relatable.

Another neurodivergent top performer, so humble, what a resumé

What are retarded now? This is not in any way shape or form an accomplishment.

Susan was gorgeous

What a pleasant person.

The cliche and uninspired stickers on the MacBook is some cosmic level irony

You don’t always have to be a super model to be 🔥. That thumbnail image of her from the 80’s does it for me. 😊

9:45 saying it out loud without realizing it…. It will never be enough for them.

The whole thing turns into an AMSR, like everything with her

Do you think the diskette icon for "Save" will ever be replaced?

I remember a story about an early Macintosh user where the bomb came up on the screen and this woman ran out of her house and called the fire department because she thought her computer was going to explode, ha ha. As an artist I remember the first time using a Mac, specifically either MacDraw or MacPaint and the idea that you could actually copy and paste an object made me lose my fucking mind. I just couldn't believe it.

Where’s my dog :-)

Now she's 70 years-old and she got rid of the frizz.

This woman gives the vibe that she could bake a beautiful cake and leave it to cool down while she starts a company.

Je me rappel de cette Dame Susan KARE :Le MAC à diskette de 1983 hier il était bien fait il tournait bien pour lavoir vu mais il était très chère

“Oh, and here’s my first font…” Damn. Chicago was the Mac system font for years. Hat an enduring legacy, on top of the icons.

“People just like … bears and penguins.” :-)

Regarding drastically bettering design practice, this is the only solution: *All types of intellectual property (IP) laws must be fully abolished immediately, in any and all jurisdictions worldwide.* All IP laws are extremely unethical for humankind. Against Intellectual Monopoly is the most informative book humanity has on the subject now. Against Intellectual Property is _another_ incredible essay, but it’s written with right-libertarian rhetoric so if you’re, like me, not right-libertarian you’ll have to read with an open mind and extract the info. _Only_ these two texts are the gold standard when it comes to intellectual property.

Her demo of the Mac on that old computer show in the early 80s was mesmerizing. I'm guessing she has become something of an icon herself. Now off to John Deere tractor videos...

I bet she's good at playing Minecraft

Loved this session!

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Talk about consistency. 40 years collecting. ❤

can someone suppress laugh and room echo please...🥺

It’s sad liberal arts just means general education these days, instead of it actually meaning creative arts

Apple should have kept the Chicago font. It's a great typeface.

man imagine her making the art for a pixel art game

"The real San Francisco" lol I thought the same thing why did they recycle that name? But also Franciscan Sans would have been the BEST name for that font

Its so cool to use something you created many many years ago.

They thought it was "fast". But I guess maybe we're used to instantaneous now and forgot what fast means when related to a computer.

:n)

Wonderful talk. So many good insights - especially hearing about the thoughts on icons from a pioneer at the birth of the graphical user interface. Much more pure than what we have today. And then 32:20 - I feel exactly the same, So happy to have Susan reflect on this. 15 years I worked for a company, the last ten as being the UI/UX lead for everything we did. Then I turned freelancer and I was so much more relaxed with regards to the outcome. I did better work as a freelancer, because the overall conditions were better. But I also felt more at ease with things not making it into the final product. You enjoy the process, you save good ideas that were not used for another time and the next project can be just around the corner. Whereas being part of a company you are so much more linked to the outcome in a stressful way. Everything you do in the future depends on what is decided now, both good and bad.

If this was shot in 2020 the camera “operator” should be also.

she is too cool

I haven't heard of this genius till yesterday. I watch some retrocomputing videos and KZbin suggested me that "this is what we call a window" video. I'm so glad I clicked.

Imagine being such a useless CEO that you reject a design by Susan Kare!

She was so smok'n hot back then. Would loved to have met her.

Loved it, Susan is awesome. I wish they'd split the screen and have her on one side and her screen always shown on the other side. So many precious slides missed.

Just as pretty as she was in the 80s!!

She made Chicago font… !

The famous W font...Chicago 😊

Thanks!