Tag: 1980s

“Susan Kare, Icon of Icons”

Priceonomics has an interview with Susan Kare, who has spent  her career designing icons for graphic computer interfaces and the first proportionally spaced font for Apple.  “For many, Susan Kare’s icons were a first taste of human-computer interaction: they were approachable, friendly, and simple, much like the designer […]

Cahiers du Cannon: Street Smart

Guest Star Jessica Ritchey returns this month with another entry into her series, Cahiers du Cannon. Last Month, Jessica wrote about Castaway. This month she looks at Christopher Reeve in Street Smart (1987). Until Batman V Superman disgraced itself in theaters the most reviled Superman property was easily […]

Deryni Re-Read!

At Tor, Judith Tarr is re-reading Katherine Kurtz’ Deryni books. “Katherine Kurtz’s first Deryni books were my gateway drug not for reading fantasy—that would be Tolkien—but for writing it. What she did in her medieval world, just a step over from ours, was this enormous “OH! Yes!” These […]