The person who designed mac icons

She is Susan Kare, and thanks to the awesome and self-explanatory blog Doodlers Anonymous, here is her story and here are some pictures from her sketchbook in which she brainstormed icon ideas for the original Mac OS. My favourite is "auto indent". The pointing hand is pretty incredible.

The article is full of cool facts, such as that the command sign (next to the spacebar on a mac) is taken from Swedish maps indicating a castle seen from above! Basically she did what Otto Neurath wanted to do with his isotypes, really well. I think pictorial communication is really cool. Also, here is a video from 1968 of the first ever (I think?) graphical user interface with a mouse.