Revolutionary Apple icon designer Susan Kare unveils a playful jewelry and objet collaboration with Asprey Studio

Extensively credited with creating Macintosh’s ubiquitous digital language within the Eighties, laptop iconographer Susan Kare started work for Apple in 1982, as the only artist for display screen graphics. A level in high-quality arts, reasonably than graphic ensign, proved helpful when creating heat, human typefaces and icons which shortly struck a chord with customers.

Kare’s well-known designs – together with the Comfortable Mac icon, floppy disk image when saving recordsdata and the Command key image – are immediately an iconic a part of our visible language, and one thing she has interpreted as soon as once more, this time in a jewelry format.

A collaboration with Asprey Studio, Esc Keys, sees 32 new icons designed by Kare delivered to life as enamelled laptop keys in silver or plated gold, or as playful jewelry items. The gathering contains Kare’s mischievous ‘Panic!’ key, initially put in on her personal private keyboard.

It’s a pure step for Aspey Studio, established in 2021 to champion works which blur the boundaries between the worlds of artwork and design. For Alastair Walker, chief inventive officer of Asprey Studio, the partnership is a simple one. He says: ‘Susan Kare is an influential and pioneering artist who works with lowered palettes and resolutions to convey, in an instantly comprehensible manner, advanced and infrequently inexpressible duties.’