Apple Kare's legendary artist has launched 32 new retro inspiration icons that are designed to live outside the computer's screen. Instead, The “ESC KEYS” collection created Kare In collaboration with Asprey Studio, it consists of keyboard mechanical keys and portable pendants, each with an illustration of 8 -bit pixels such as a dog, a plant, mail and coffee.
While these icon designs are new, the style will be recognizable for anyone familiar with Kare's work. She is responsible for creating much of the iconography in the first Macintosh personal computer operating system, including the “Happy Mac” start icon and the symbol of saving the original floppy file.
The founder of Kare and Asprey Studio Alastair Walker said Fast company that “there is a hidden meaning” for each of the new designs that represent things that people can enjoy eliminating their keyboards. Each piece of the ESC Keys collection is designed in silver or silver coated with gold and is a limited edition, 30 to 120 pieces depending on the icon, so buying something will not be cheap.
The prices start at $ 650 for the keys of the silver computer, which go to $ 2,064 for collars of collar in Vermeil gold (a method that covers solid silver in a gold layer). Apparently, the solid gold options are “available on request”, and each piece comes with their own digital art work registered in Blockchain to verify the “property and origin.”
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