Clarus, the Dogcow : Moof Museum
A museum dedicated to Clarus, the Dogcow (Apple DTS mascot : she can flip, she can do precise alignment, and she moof!)
A museum dedicated to Clarus, the Dogcow (Apple DTS mascot : she can flip, she can do precise alignment, and she moof!)
Clarus as the mascott of the Apple DTS team has inspired many.
Here discover all icons, pictures and graphics made in relation with Clarus, the Dogcow.
We have a separate collection for pictures made by Apple and another for animated pictures
Author: unknow
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A reincarnation of the Apple DTS badge (WWDC'88) with Cairo and the Apple Logo.
Author: unknow
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A dogcow glowing white on a black background.
Author: Mac@LehighValley Mac User Group (no date)
Source : Mac@LehighValley Mac User Group
Mac@LehighValley Mac User Group has a Glossary of Apple & Mac Terms. At letter D you could find Dogcow and a strange illustration, a deformed version...
Author: unkown - 1990
Source : trademarkia
"Moof! Dogcow Productions" was law-suit by Apple Inc for using Dogcow icon and moof!.
Author: MTWS - 1996
Source : MTWS (archive.org)
They sales WWDC CD with 150 sessions in video...
Author:Mark Stanley Bubien - 1996
Source : StoryBytes
Probably the oldest web site about Clarus the Dogcow.
Run by StoryBytes since 1996, Moof in Mind is a manisfesto for Macintosh developers and also presents Clarus history and some original materiasl, including a strange color dogcow drying on a tree and a very small variation (16x13 pixels) !
Author: Kate Dungca - 1997
Source : brian boitano (from archives.org)
The page is marked with a brown Dogcow animated gif, with "Made with Macintosh"
Author: cchs - 1997
Source : cchsrp (archive.org)
The Christian Community High School has an original page dedicated to Clarus... very strange but Dogcow is fun.
Discover the ultra-cool Dog-Cow-Boy, the "Rock'Solid, my Ass" and TeleMoof...
Author: Rick Riccetti - 1998
Source : seapine (blog)
Rick tell us the story of Seapine software logo and suddenly came Clarus...
Author: Ross - 1998
Source : Ross (from archives.org)
Ross has a site about the Dogcow, with a brief history section. The collectibles he owns and a serie of rainbow icons he creates.
Ross also send to the museum a comparaison note.
Author: Joseph J. Strout - 1999
Source : MacTech volume 15
Joseph used Clarus to illustrate an article about PixMap rotation.
He send us its creation, the rotating dogcow.
Author: edwood - 1999
Source : edwood (archive.org)
edwood illustrate it link page (for mac) with a nice brown dogcow.
Author: MacDev - 1999
Source : MacDev (MIT)
The Macintosh Development group of Information System at MIT used Clarus on top of a dome as their mascot.
Author: Arnaud Boutle - 1999
Source : IconFactory (archive.org)
Win 2nd prize for PixelPalloza in 1999 run by Icon Factory with a serie of "Rolling" icons.
A icon in the serie "rolling" : a rolling moof !
Author: foom - 1999
Source : foom
Foom is a gamer team (Fraternal order Of Moof) for the game "Team Fortress".
They, of course, have Dogcow as Mascot and a dedicated page for Clarus.
"Welcome to the home of FOoM, the Fraternal Order of Moof. We are a Team Fortress Classic clan dedicated to the pursuit of life-long happiness through the fragging others with your fellow dog-cows."
There logo is a revisited Dogcow walking (with 4 legs).
Author: anakin - 1999
Source : applejuice (archive.org)
Anakin propose some icon kit for macOS 8.5. On kit include 2 doggow : the classic one and a embossed one (adapt to MacOS 8.5 theme).
Author: unknow - discovered in 2000
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A strange reversed dead-brown dogcow with a small shadow.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2000
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A very small (16x12 pixels) gray and brown dogcow, with a little red lung. An original design.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2000
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A dogcow in a folder. to fit it in the folder, the author has reduce its legs.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2000
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A dogcow on a green button.
Author: Florian & Pierre-Alain - 2000
On usenet, some french users start using the DB-Face capability from MacSoup (usenet client software), enabling them to presents color pictures (96x96 pixels max) for their identity.
Of course, some used Clarus.
Author: Pierre-Alain Dorange - 2000
Pierre-Alain experiment variations around Clarus and the iMac series in 2000.
Author: Jeffrey J. Hoover - 2000
Source : MacDude (from archives.org)
MacDude site has a page called Wipe Out! (seems to be like an server error 404) illustrated with a deformed dogcow.
Author: Dougintosh - 2000
Source : Dougintosh (archive.org)
Dougintosh sales Apple/Mac collectibles, it has a Moof section with T-Shirt, Hat, Watch, Pencil and pet mat...
View Dougintosh Clarus collectibles.
Author: feorag - 2001
Source : applejuice (archive.org)
Feorag propose several icon sets, one is a variation with Clarus and the new iMac look : transparence and bright color (the same flavors Apple propose for the iMac at that time).
Author: Mark DeNyse - 2001
Source : markdenyse
Mark is a fan of the Boston Red Socks baseball team and has adapt Clarus accordingly (with red socks of course).
His site has a section "casa de dogcow"
Author: Carlos Reyes - 2001
Source : interfacelift (archive.org)
Carlos design a serie of icon for macOS X, featuring Clarus
Author: Andrew Sleigh - 2001
Source : andrewsleigh (from archives.org)
Andrew realize in 2001 that there was a cult for the Dogcow. Then he celebrates this with 2 pictures.
Thanks Andrew.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2001
Sorry the source for this picture has been lost in the internet...
A strange Dogcow with the logo of MacOS X on her nose, in french is wrotten "un os est un os", a word-joke with the french "os" (bone) and "os" (operating system).
In fact we could interpret this as Clarus with an "os" (bone) in her mouth, and this bone is MacOS X...
Author: iMacWire - 2001
Source : imacwire (inaccessible)
A dark-brown Dogcow flying over the moon, very cryptic message.
This picture is a screenshot of a preview of the picture.
Author: Eric Gosselin - 2001
Source : Apple Collection (flickr)
Eric create a new design for the upcoming G5 Macintosh, Apple ignore it...
Author: moof - 2002
Source : UKCIRC Mugshots (from archives.org)
Some users of the UKCIRC has "mugshots", one of them (moof) used a personalized Dogcow.
Author: wired - 2002
Source : wired and jedi concil forums
This picture is a StarWars "pastiche", mixing "Empire Strike Back" famous scene with AT-AT Walkers and "Attack of the Clones", transmuted into computer world, with Airport base station fighting robots... Note that AT-AT Walkers has been moofed with a Dogcow suit !
There is also Darth Cow, Steve Jobs as Hobiwan, Steve Ballmer as Jaba the Hutt and Bill gates as the emperor.
Very strange and don't know why and how this image reside in Wired servers...
Author: Spiegel Online - 2002
To illustrate an interview with Susan Kare, German "Spiegel" create a Dogcow carrying a Smiling Mac (2 icons created by Susan Kare).
"Kare: Ich habe den gefleckten Hund für die Cairo-Schrift entwickelt, die mit dem ersten Mac 1984 ausgeliefert wurde."
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Author: Pierre-Alain Dorange - 2002
PixelToy Garden was a challenge to design tiles using pixels to fill a garden.
PAD design two tiles featuring Dogcow and a moof sculpted in a bush...
Author: AppleLinks - 2002
Source : AppleLinks (archive.org)
AppleLinks has created a moofie award to celebrates games on the Macintosh, and the award has a golden dogcow mascot.
Author: Omoto - 2002
Source : tam (archive.org)
Omoto has a page dedicated to Clarus with some revisited pictures
Author: Chubby - 2002
Source : konpeito (archive.org)
Chubby has made a bitmap font that include a very small Dogcow version : 11x11 pixels. The smallest one !
Author: Nitrozac & Snaggy
Joy of tech is a geek comics for the web site GeekCulture. Clarus made 4 appearrances:
Author: Vinay Venkatech - 2003
Vinay wrote an article on his blog to critisim MacOS X GUI, the article his headed by a flipped Dogcow
Author: Stuart Cunningham - 2003
Stuart illustrate its bio with a slightly twisted Dogcow that linked to wikipedia article about Clarus...
Author: Darren Woodcock - 2003
Source : atpm
Darren design this picture for ATPM (About This Particular Macintosh Volume 9, Number 9 (September 2003).
This picture represent the Dogcow (marked as G5, for PowerPC) under the spotlight of a UFO named "IBM" (IBM build PowerPC at that time).
Author: Guru de Mac - 2004
Source : gurudemac (inaccessible)
A nice postcard from Clarus visiting Cairo, found on a now inaccessible blog at AOL.
As Clarus has been abandonned by Apple from this date, perhaps has she escape from Apple Labs and is now touring around the world. If you received any postcard from Clarus, please tell us.
Author: agatepickin (2004)
The original source is unavailable and wayback machine has no trace for this geocities web site : "agatepickin"
We found there Clarus of course, but also a Cow and a Cat with the same pixel design... Moof! Meooff ?
Author: Chris Lewis - 2004
Source : dogcow.co.uk (archive.org)
Chris own the dogcow.co.uk domain from 2004 to 2005 and illustrate it with a full orange background, a single page about Dogcow.
Author: Veerle Pieters - 2005
Source : Veerle Pieters (flickr)
Montage with a sitting cow and 2 dogcow.
Author: Dogcow Land blog - 2005
A blog on MacGUI handle by Dogcow featuring a Dogcow rainbowed as its avatar.
Author: Adam Betts - 2005
Source : the reservoir (archive.org)
The Reservoir Dogcow was a gamer team in World of Warcraft MORP.
Adam Betts design a logo and a web design, read the full article about the design process.
Author: Jeremy Kemp - 2005
Source : macphile (flickr)
Jeremy propose a big picture of Clarus, unfortunally there is strange deformation and a no-usual direction.
Author: ThoomCare - 2006
Source : ThoomCare Report on Tsriin 564
Clan Lord is on online game with old fashion (8 bits) graphics with a large community.
Users handle characters with a specific avatar, some of course use "Clarus, the Dogcow"
Source : idopa
Jeff used this dogcow on MacOX background to illustrate its short article on idopa.
Author: YJ - 2006
Source : stupidchicken
A webcomics about a chicken yelling at things... on 2006 she yelled at Clarus.
Author: David Connor - 2007
Source : alonemedia (flickr)
David show on its flickr account a picture (with Clarus as background) called "Milkymoocow", it looks like a prototype for a blog design.
Author: Christopher DeCaro - 2009
Source : mercurystate (flickr.com)
Christopher put on its flickr a capture of an iOS apps that propose a Clarus icon in its icon list.
It was a transformed icon but definitly related to Clarus !
Author: Andréas Corcol - 2010
Source : ace1138blog
Andréas design a Moof to illustrate an article on his blog.
Author: Literate Lobsters - 2011
Hommage to Steve Jobs death on the Literate Lobsters tumblr.
The design was the same as the Note "Proper usage of the Dogcow icon".
Author: StarGate System - 2011
StarGate is a USA compagny that made Applications for Mac and iOS, thier web site is illustrated with a magnificent Clarus on an iPhone...
Author: unknow -2011
Source : Gnarlodious
An aqua Dogcow (cairo design) on a black brackground.
Author: Janez Starc - 2012
Source : jabolko
Janez present Clarus history in Slovenia, we can learn that Dogcow makes "Muu" in this country.
Author: Heng D. - 2012
Source : hengdm (foursquare)
Heng has a Clarus avatar on FourSquare, it looks like an Angry Clarus.
Author: JacqAllen - 2012
Source : jacqallen (flickr)
JacqAllen has a picture of what looks like a smartphone screenshot with a vectorized Dogcow...
Author: Binary Boy and Midget Man - discovered in 2013
An old site that do not work anymore, but it feature a small animals (Dogcow Production) called "moo".
Author: Dave Anderson - 2013
Source : tuaw
Erica Sadun wrote a review of PaintCode software.
Dave sent a SVG dogcow to test SVG import from PaintCode and it works.
Author: Michinobu Fujii - 2013
Source : plumpepper (flickr.com)
Michinobu made is personnal wallpaper, it was the only picture on its flickr account... with a vectorized Clarus (from Cairo TrueType font)
Author: Matt Hunsberger - 2013
Source : teleflux (flickr.com)
Everyday Matt put a picture on its flickr account. On 2nd march 2013 he put a Clarus picture.
This picture "Old School Apple" got some strange artefact, but it was Clarus.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2013
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A rainbowed dogcow on a sky background, it was an avatar picture.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2013
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A dogcow inspired by Cairo with a strange broken nose.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2013
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Author: unknow - discovered in 2013
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A nice Dogcow hidden under a page curl.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2013
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A Dogcow moofing at an iMac.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2013
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A djihadist dogcow ?
If your are an NSA agent, this picture was only there to illustrate (do you understand ?) ; i do not want to go to Guantanamo.
Author: unknow - discovered in 2013
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Another variation of a 3D dogcow, small resolution.
She looks like the 3d dogcow founded on xMetal desktop.
Author: Pierre-Alain Dorange - november 2014
Apple announce a new "moof! edition" for this band new iWatch. Delivered with an exclusive application : "moof!"
