Hi SIGCIS- I hope you'll indulge a bit of self-promotion for an upcoming public program that may be of interest. Susan Kare's icon and GUI design work is featured in the Silicon Valley section of our exhibition, Places of Invention<http://invention.si.edu/places-invention-exhibition-overview>, and the SIGCIS community kindly helped workshop my work-in-progress paper on Kare<http://www.sigcis.org/files/Hintz.pdf> in Albuquerque (2015). Hope to see you on May 8! Best, Eric Hintz --- Innovative Lives: Susan Kare Presented by the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation Graphic designer Susan Kare has been called the "the Betsy Ross of the personal computer," the "Queen of Look and Feel," the "Matisse of computer icons," and the "mother of the Mac trash can." Kare is best known for designing the distinctive icons, typefaces, and other graphic elements that gave the Apple Macintosh its characteristic-and widely emulated-look and feel. Since then, Kare has spent the last three decades designing user interface elements for many of the leading software and Internet firms. If you have clicked on an icon to save a file or tapped your smart phone screen to launch a mobile app, then you have benefited from Kare's designs. Lemelson Center historian Eric S. Hintz will interview Kare about her fascinating career, followed by questions from the audience. Tuesday, May 8, 2018 6:30 p.m. - 8:30p.m. Wallace H. Coulter Performance Plaza, 1 West Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Constitution Avenue between 12th and 14th Streets NW Washington, DC Details: http://invention.si.edu/about/events/innovative-lives-susan-kare Tickets are FREE: register at https://innovativelives2018.eventbrite.com<https://innovativelives2018.eventbrite.com/> ====================== Eric S. Hintz, Ph.D. Historian, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution MRC 604, P. O. Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 WORK: 202-633-3734 CELL: 610-717-7134 FAX: 202-633-4593 hintze@si.edu<mailto:hintze@si.edu> http://invention.si.edu<http://invention.si.edu/>