Mac icon creator Susan Kare offers cute, pricey keycaps in silver and gold

Susan Kare is the artist best known for creating the original Macintosh iconography which played such an important role in making the computer appear friendly to non-tech users. The Happy Macintosh, Dogcow, and error bomb were among her creations. She already offered a range of prints and other artworks based on those pixelated memories, and has now added to them with some similarly-styled keycaps in silver and gold … The keycaps are not Mac icons, but rather all-new low-res images in the same style. This includes two dogs, but no dogcows. FastCo reports that the idea came from Alastair Walker, the founder and creative director of Asprey Studio, an London art gallery where the late Queen apparently bought gifts. Walker says he thought Kare was the perfect person to design his idea of the “escape keys”: Meaningful symbols that would represent things people might want to do away from their keyboards, physical reminders of the joys of physical life. “There’s hidden meaning on each one ... Read full article.