I just made my annual journey to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. MoMA has long been an inspiration to me, one of my favorite places to visit on the planet. But this trip was more personal than most.

As part of an exhibit titled, This is for Everyone: Design Experiments For The Common Good, MoMA recognized the icon work done by Susan Kare for the original Macintosh. The exhibit runs between now and January 31, 2016.

The sketchbook was behind glass and there was a fair amount of glare, but I did manage to capture a few images. By far, my favorite was this one, showing the Apple icon, in all its pixelated glory. Click on the image for an embiggered version.

It is hard to put into words how it felt to stand in front of that notebook. A mixture of happiness at being so close to something I’ve loved for so long, mixed with a poignant sadness at the passage of time.