Pinterest Adds Macintosh Design Vet Susan Kare as Product Design Lead

Kare has been creating limited-edition fine art icon prints since 2011, and she designed classics including the lasso, grabber and paint bucket for the Apple Macintosh, as well as the Chicago typeface used in the first four generations of the iPod.

After Apple, Kare worked with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs as creative director at NeXt, and then founded agency Susan Kare Design, where her projects included Solitaire for Microsoft and Facebook Gifts.

Pinterest co-founder and chief creative officer Evan Sharp said in a release announcing the hire:

As one of the small group of people who helped invent and popularize the graphical user interface, Susan’s contributions to this industry are immeasurable.