Susan Kare

Susan Kare was born 1954 in Ithaca, New York. She is very famous for designing some of the interface which is found on the original apple Macintosh. Some of her icons she designed are still on the software used today such as the Lasso, the grabber and the paint bucket. Another element she designed for apple was the welcome face when you turned the man on and has only recently been replaced with the apple logo. She has also worked with Microsoft designing icons that are still used on the machines today such as the notebook icon and a few of the icons displayed in the control panel.
Susan Kare also designed the playing deck for the game solitaire game. I like how the bright blue stands out from the green and how you can see that the image has been drawn using pixels which makes it look quirky and different, although I do like her work I doubt I would ever use it as inspiration as it is not the style I want to work in in the future.

see more of her work http://www.kare.com/

eBoy

Eboy are a group of pixel artists who have nicknamed themselves the god fathers of pixel, they where founded in 1997 and are from Germany and U.S.A.  The group creates art work mostly for websites but also for magazines and adverts. The company has worked on projects for very large companies such as Coca-Cola, which shows how strong there work is. The art work the group create has a strong emphasis on old video games, as you can see in there work as the pixels give block colour this relates back to many peoples childhoods which could be why there work is becoming increasingly popular, in contrast to other digital work where the lines are as smooth as can be made with the hope that the pixels are hidden, eBoy relish in the old school look.
 “Handling pixels is fun and you are forced to simplify and abstract things, which is a big advantage of this technique."

For me the work is over crowded and to busy for me to look at however I do like how they are being so different and creating work which pushes the boundaries.  

Learn more about this company www.eboy.com/