Final culture project

I was able to finish my culture project on Dr Susan Kare.  I submitted my writing to the writing lab and they gave me some great feedback that I was able to apply.  I added some final pictures and took advice of classmates as well. Overall, the project was a lot of fun to do, but [...]

Writing and posting project

I have been working on my cultural project constantly.  I had sent Susan Kare some interview questions, and I know she is extremely busy, so I was not expecting to hear back from her at all.  To my surprise, I did receive some response yesterday.  I am adding this to my project about Susan Kare, [...]

Women’s study librarian

This week I emailed Jane Nichols, the women’s study librarian at OSU to ask her for research ideas for my cultural site project.  She got back to me very quicky, within a day, with some ideas.  I had not previously thought to look at the sites noted at the bottom of Wikipedia articles.  This is [...]

Susan Kare, Developer of Icons

Susan Kare is an independent graphic designer who worked for Apple and developed icons and font designs, as well as the original marketing material and interface for Macintosh.  She has also developed icons for Facebook, Apple, typefaces for I-pod, and thousands of other icons for hundreds of different companies. 
Susan is from New York, received her [...]

Culture site ideas

I have started thinking about what I want to do for my cultural project.  I am thinking about focusing on Mary Lou Jepsen and her contributions to the XO laptop, which is the laptop used in OLPC,  One laptop per child foundation.