Susan Kare's iconography. Hieroglyphics for the 20th century.

"Susan Kare (born 1954) is an artist and graphic designer who created many of the interface elements for the Apple Macintosh in the 1980s. She was also one of the original employees of NeXT (the company formed by Steve Jobs after leaving Apple in 1985), working as the Creative Director." -Wikipedia

Seeing Natobasso's post on fonts and 3dogmama's post on typefaces I was reminded of the FIRST time i used a mac and the 'funky' fonts that came with it. Especially the Dingbat font 'Cairo' and the venerable 'Dogcow.'

Susan Kare's website and especially portfolio, is not only a trip down memory lane its also quite inspirational. You can also by a t-shirt with the dreaded 'bomb' icon on it. . . how cool. :)