Susan Kare's ascii-equivalence

It's not literally ascii-art, but imho it's the same esthetic...

The genius who designed most of the Mac's favorite icons and fonts,
Susan Kare, has a website with lots of her miniatures, and this great
interview:

<URL:http://www.kare.com/nytimes.html>


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I wrote:
> It's not literally ascii-art, but imho it's the same esthetic...
> 
> The genius who designed most of the Mac's favorite icons and fonts,
> Susan Kare, has a website with lots of her miniatures, and this great
> interview:
> 
> <URL:http://www.kare.com/nytimes.html>

And I immediately got this hate-email from an idiot:

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Subject:     Re: Susan Kare's ascii-equivalence
From:        Andy Hood <ah7...@bristol.ac.uk>
To:          Jorn Barger <jor...@mcs.com>
Date:        Mon, 16 Mar 1998 16:31:53 +0000 (GMT)

seriously, please go and bother someone else.
This is off-topic, and qualifies you as a troll.  Shut up.


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he that yields to another, or he that is yielded to?"  --Erasmus

miK <mmi...@dataweb.nl> wrote:
> ><URL:http://www.kare.com/nytimes.html>
> Wow! Thanks for the URL, Jorn.
> Always wondered who drew the callous smiley that greets me every morning...

Something else to notice, is that she's probably pulling in seven
figures in a good year-- doing what's effectively equivalent to
ascii-art.

(In fact, this may be the best argument in *favor* of copyright
protection.)


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he that yields to another, or he that is yielded to?"  --Erasmus

jor...@mcs.com (Jorn Barger) wrote:

><URL:http://www.kare.com/nytimes.html>

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Wow! Thanks for the URL, Jorn.

Always wondered who drew the callous smiley that greets me every morning...

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Thank God I can't mimic that smile in ASCII :)

bye,
mic (& the Mac addicts I've forwarded your msg to) 

jor...@mcs.com (Jorn Barger) wrote:

>miK <mmi...@dataweb.nl> wrote:
>> ><URL:http://www.kare.com/nytimes.html>
>> Wow! Thanks for the URL, Jorn.
>> Always wondered who drew the callous smiley that greets me every morning...

>Something else to notice, is that she's probably pulling in seven
>figures in a good year-- doing what's effectively equivalent to
>ascii-art.

 :D

A "career" move crossed my mind a second, but my converters didn't perform
that well in ASCII2GIF and ASCII2BMP mode... ;)

>(In fact, this may be the best argument in *favor* of copyright
>protection.)

Oh no, count me out. Don't wanna be dragged into that "discussion".

mic

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