Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers

Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by cmacaskill on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:23PM (#18773874)

That's a good question. It's Andy Hertzfeld who told me she was the first true artist in the computer industry and I've heard him say it a lot. Somebody had to design the icons at Parc tho. https://blogs.plos.org/neurotribes/2011/11/22/the-sketchbook...

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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by boulos on Friday December 28, 2018 @04:22AM (#18775750)

I think Alvy Ray Smith did a lot of those [1]. Dealers of Lightning has a bit more on the story. He then went on to join the NYIT graphics folks with Ed Catmull, and went out to California for the Lucasfilm (and later, Pixar) work.

Alvy Ray Smith never got a fine arts degree, but he's definitely done art for most of his career, including exhibitions. "True artist" almost sounds like a way to exclude these types :).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvy_Ray_Smith

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Re:Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to... by shanghaiaway on Friday December 28, 2018 @08:23AM (#18776552)

Susan Kare is not an artist but a graphic designer. She doesn't claim to be an artist herself.

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