Description
In exploring computer icons as cultural artefacts, elegant images, and bundles of code, Jonathan Reeve Price describes how they were originally created as part of a graphic user interface in the early days at Apple. He then reflects on how these little drawings have evolved and become ubiquitous in our culture. The images themselves, enlarged in these pages, are vivid graphic forms. Their functionality, name, and overtones speak to Price, and he lets us overhear his poetic response to each of 100 icons.
Computer icons carry culture, history, and code. As buttons, they awaken functions deep inside the system. As images, they evoke old technology, memes, and mysteries. And, as artwork bearing their own titles, they come loaded with implications, overtones, and attitude. In this book, you’ll enjoy getting a new perspective on such familiar but alien objects.
