Susan Kare is an Iconographer. In the early 1980s, Kare started working for Apple creating icons and fonts. Although Kare gave Mac voice, style, personality and sense of humour, Mac also gave her an important positive influence. Her icons are very friendly and easy to understand for anybody, because Kare’s style and talent with the philosophy and great influence from Steve Jobs of Mac made Karen who she is now, a legendary iconographer.
The portrait is a combination of a Japanese woodcut by Goyo Hashiguchi and Susan Karen’s face. Susan Kare has created vector art of the Japanese woodcut which was owned by Steve Jobs. This combination represents the foundational moto of Steve Jobs and Karen’s voice and style together. To define Karen’s face and hair with volume and details, colours needed to be more vibrant than the original Japanese woodcut. To add the antique woodcut-like feel, a brush was used in the background to create a rough texture. The pixel art style was chosen for what Karen has said on Vimeo, “I love the simplicity of and the discipline of trying to make something expressive in that mosaic technic.”