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On Record Many of the articles and interviews about my work and career are now out of print and impossible to find. This directory includes digital archival copies for your reference. For the more recent articles, links are provided.
2000 - present  | 1990 - 1999  | 1980 - 1989
01 July 1989   Clement Mok designs  Montieth M. Illingworth
HOW Magazine Clement Mok designs Leaving Apple Computer to strike out on his own, Clement Mok specializes in design for the computer industry. His studio’s phenomenal growth is due to solid management and a vision of unlimited possibilities... Picture a guy with a six-figure salary in a fast track job, with stock options, waltzing into his boss’s office one day and, well, throwing it all out the window.

  
25 October 1988   Omnipage  Stuart Silverstone
MacWeek Graphic Arts Supplement Omnipage Clement Mok considers his packaging and identity design for Caere's new OmniPage OCR software one of the most exciting projects of his 10-year career... "The bottom-line is that the design process has nothing to do with better machines. It has to do with bringing past experience and present experience all together and synthesizing that into some coherent 'mess' that is both interesting and, hope-fully, has a life of its own."

  
25 October 1988   Clement Mok: A master of Macintosh design  Karen Sorensen
MacWeek Graphic Arts Supplement Clement Mok: A master of Macintosh design “The photo was too cold; it felt like `1984' with all these monitors all over the place. The beautiful screens just weren't doing the trick.” Mok sat up straight in his chair, his enthusiasm rising, as he flipped open the large, foldout photo in the annual report and points to his solution. There, a barely notice-able lizard crawled across the floor in front of a Macintosh SE… At 30 years of age, the dark-haired, whimsical Mok is among the top designers in his field. His youthful appearance has led at least one friend to jokingly dub him “the most famous 12-year-old designer in America.” Indeed, Mok has won more than 60 national and international graphic arts awards.

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01 September 1987   Apple's Birthday  Dean Morris
HOW Magazine Apple's Birthday Creative director, Clement Mok, developed and camera-ready logo art for Apple’s tenth anniversary in 12 hours using the Macintosh computer… When the current generation hears "apple," it is more likely to think of a friendly desktop computer than a succulent fruit. Apple, the fast-moving company, is celebrating its 10th year, and to create the logo for the ensuing observances, Apple’s in-house creative director Clement Mok tried to capture the essence of the company, and, of course, relied on the Mac for his anniversary image.

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01 January 1987   Macintosh Identity  
Print Casebook 7:The Best in Packaging Macintosh Identity When in-house designers at Apple Computer talk about the company’s current. uncluttered identity program, they refer to “the white look.”… This graphics concept—totally different from anything seen before in computer packaging—was so simple, so engaging, and so right that it has spawned a host of imitators and started to change the look of packaging, not only in computer hardware and software, but also in other high- tech products whose uses are difficult to communicate to consumers through traditional illustration and photography.

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01 May 1985   Apple Computer  Marty Neumeier
Communication Arts Magazine Apple Computer Imagine entering a dark room. As you explore the blackness you realize the room is much larger than you had originally supposed. And just when you figure the room is probably endless, you bang your head against a wall… Such is the problem of being Apple, according to co-founder Steven Jobs. “We’re still trying to find out who we are — it’s not like Apple is a 75-year-old company with tradition etched in the granite lavatories.” Jobs, the sometimes brash, often philosophical chairman of the board, is himself only 30 years old, which also happens to be the average of Apple’s 5,000 employees.

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