In the foreword to Icons, Steve Silberman notes that the "command" icon, found on nearly every Apple keyboard and described as a stylized castle seen from here, was originally a common symbol used at Swedish campgrounds to denote an interesting sightseein
Designer Susan Kare is the icon of icons. Her presence, as screen graphics and digital font designer at Apple in the '80s, helped establish the paradigm of icons as a navigational tool in graphical user interfaces.
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