The current CEO of Adobe, Shantanu Narayen, sent an email to employees announcing Geschke s passing. It is with profound sadness that I share that our beloved co-founder Dr Chuck Geschke, has passed away at the age of 81, leaving an indelible mark on our company and the world, Narayen wrote. This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades.
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Geschke was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939 and enjoyed a successful career in maths and technology long before co-founding Adobe. He taught mathematics at John Carroll University in the 1960s before completing a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in 1972.
An émigré architectural historian who teaches across disciplines in California, at a public university near Apple’s lair in the Bay Area (close to San Francisco), is posting an essay.
Since architectural stories are surprising rare on the edge of the continent, he needed a shtick; no matter what’s his connoisseur-ish personal tastes and leftist political dispositions.
Simon Sadler published an essay on March 13/2013 in The Design Observer Group: “Steve Jobs: Architect”
Top: Apple store, Fifth Avenue, New York. [Photo by Eric Wüstenhagen]
Bottom: Steve Jobs and Rem Koolhaas. [Photos by James Mitchell, left, and Rodrigo Fernández, right]
What Is a Hamburger Menu Button?
Apr 17, 2021, 6:40 am EDT
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Hamburger Menu or Hamburger Icon is a term commonly used when talking about apps. It might make you hungry, but it has nothing to do with food. Where did this silly name come from, and what does the menu do?
The History of the Hamburger Icon
The Hamburger icon menu, symbol, button, etc. has been around since 1981. It was created by Norm Cox, the graphics lead for the Xerox Star, the first commercial personal computer.
Norm designed the symbol as a container for menu choices. The horizontal lines are an abstract depiction of a vertical list. You can see the hamburger menu buttons in action on the Xerox Star in the video below at the 21:15 mark.
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Monday 18 January 2021 à 09:17 by Natalia Kudryavtseva. In the Internet Archaeology rubric, we talk about some very familiar standards of the Internet that we often don t even notice. This time we would like to draw your attention to the menu icon. Have you ever paid attention to it? Funny fact, but in almost all interfaces it looks like a hamburger. In this article, you will find out
why it has this image, does it have something to do with the air vent or with an actual hamburger and what are the origins of the menu icon.
Why Does the Menu Icon Look Like a Hamburger?