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The DigiBarn Friends:
Jef Raskin: A Life of Design

Jef Raskin passed away peacefully on Saturday February 26th, 2005.
Our condolences go out to Jef's family, friends and wider community.
We invite you to view and listen to our January 2005 interviews with Jef
as well as see slides featuring his life in design and other resources
pertaining to Jef's life and work.


A Memorial Service for Jef Raskin was held March 13, 2005

(our photos and audio of the service are included here)

NEW: Remembrances of Jef Raskin by Richard Karpinski and by Larry Tesler and others,
the Design Sense and Life of Jef Raskin, and Recent Contributions about Jef


Jef featured on Google home page, Feb 28-March 2, 2005

Jef Raskin was a great friend of the DigiBarn project having provided us with some historic items to exhibit including the Canon Cat, the first joystick made for an Apple computer, a prototype of the Swyft and other wonders. Jef has also provided us some wonderful writing and other documents including his story Meeting Merlin about his early "ah ha" moment that led him to go into computing and a provokative collection of Early Documents about the birth of the Macintosh.

We will miss you Jef!

If you have any stories, images, video or audio or artifacts pertinent to telling Jef's story, please do not hesitate to contact us.

January 29, 2005 visit, photos and interviews

On January 29, 2005, a month before his passing we visited Jef and his family. Jef gave us a tour of some of his amazing artifacts from the birth of personal computing. Photos and audio interviews of this visit follow. See much more on this page about Jef's life that has been contributed by his friends and family.


Jef describing his Apple 1

Jef and his Apple II

(serial number 2) with
built-in monitor

Jef and the
information appliances
  MP3 Audio of
Jef Raskin

(recorded at his home
on Jan 29, 2005)
 

On the Information
Appliance Swyft

More on the Information
Appliance Swyft

On the Apple 1

More on the Apple 1

On the Apple II

(serial number two)

On interfaces and airplanes

The Design Sense & Life of Jef Raskin

  (just a brief selection of the 8,000 slides scanned by Dick Karpinski in summer 2004, with a scanner the DigiBarn provided)  

Artist & Professor in San Diego

Toys Installation

Photography and Architecture

Model Airplanes!

People in the Raskin World

Computers used over 2 Decades

Designing the Canon Cat

User Interface Experimentation

Information Appliance - Swyft

Recent Jef Raskin contributions

jef2_011605-big.JPG
Photo Gallery of Jef Raskin
(including recent pictures)

If you have any stories, images, video or audio or artifacts pertinent to telling Jef's story, please do not hesitate to contact us.


Also see Dave Burstein and Jennie Bourne's documentary site Jef The Movie:


Jef The Movie

See Also at the DigiBarn:

Remembrances of Jef Raskin by Richard Karpinski and by Larry Tesler and others

Our pages on the Canon Cat and the IAI Swyft and Jef's first Apple joystick

Jef's story Meeting Merlin


The DigiBarn Macintosh 20th Anniversary Pages - Documenting the Mac

(including the org chart from the Mac business plan org chart showing where Jef ended up after Steve Jobs took over)

See Jef's writings about the Mac at our pages including
the Genesis and History of the Macintosh Project and
Holes in the Histories
, and
Computers by the Millions

Great Raskin Resources around the Web:

Jef Raskin's own Homepage

The Raskin Center for Human Interfaces, home of Archy


Nitrozac & Snaggy's The Joy of Tech homage to Jef


If you have any stories, images, video or audio or artifacts pertinent to telling Jef's story,
please do not hesitate to contact us.

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