Podcast Awesome
autor: Font Awesome
Nejnovější epizoda
Game Boy Meets Icon Grid: Introducing Pixel!
Game Boy Meets Icon Grid: Introducing Pixel!
O tomto podcastu
On Podcast Awesome we talk to members of the Font Awesome team about icons, design, tech, business, and of course, nerdery.
🎙️ Podcast Awesome is your all-access pass into the creative engine behind Font Awesome — the web’s favorite icon toolkit. Join host Matt Johnson and the Font Awesome crew (and friends) for deep dives into icon design, front-end engineering, software development, healthy business culture, and a whole lot of lovingly-rendered nerdery.
From technical explorations of our open-source tooling, chats with web builders, icon designers, and content creators, with the occasional gleeful rants about early internet meme culture, we bring you stories and strategies from the trenches of building modern web software — with a healthy dose of 80s references and tech dad jokes.
🎧 Perfect for:
• Icon design and content-first thinking
• Creative process and collaborative design
• Work-life balance in tech
• Remote team culture and async collaboration
• Internet history, meme archaeology, and other nerd ephemera
🧠 Come for the design wisdom, stay for the deep meme cuts and beautifully crafted icons.
Epizody
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- Game Boy Meets Icon Grid: Introducing Pixel! · 23 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 21What happens when you take icons built to scale cleanly at any size and deliberately make them look like they were drawn on a Game Boy? You get Pixel, Font Awesome’s retro video…
- Notdog: The Icon Pack That Is Not a Hot Dog · 33 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 20What do a scene from Silicon Valley, a typeface shaped like sausages, and a bottle of mustard have in common? They're all part of the origin story of Notdog, one of Font…
- Cape Cuddles, Icon Farts, and Hoobastank: The Story of the Snuggle · 18 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 19Every company has a name for the week everybody flies in. The offsite. The summit. The all-hands. At Font Awesome, it's called the Snuggle. For real. Recorded from a hotel room…
- The CDN Experiment That Converted One Person (and What It Taught Us About Failing Well) · 19 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 18Would you take a shot at something you cared about if your odds of success were 1.4%? Font Awesome founders Dave Gandy and Travis Chase did exactly that when they applied to Y…
- The Sandwich That Broke UX Rules and Won · 14 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 17Pretty much every website has one, you know, those three little lines, usually tucked in a corner, hiding a whole menu behind them. It's become what's known as the hamburger…
- Icon Wizard 2.0: Build Any Icon You Can Imagine · 43 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 16Font Awesome's Icon Wizard just got a serious upgrade, and it's now powerful enough to make genuinely great icons (or, per Mike's own admission, genuinely terrible ones, if…
- Beach Ball of Death: The Ghost of a $10K Failed Computer · 15 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 15You've seen it a thousand times: you're two minutes late for a video conference call, you throw on a shirt with buttons (It's okay that you're still wearing jammie pants. Don't…
- The 404 Error Code Has a Secret Origin Story · 19 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 14Picture this serious, sterile scene: scientists in lab coats, pocket protectors, carrying clipboards, and nobody’s making eye contact. Nobody would guess that this backdrop would…
- Josh Williams on Icon Design, AI, and Knowing When to Stop [Pt. 2] · 27 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 13What if software had a final season? Josh Williams is back for round two, and this conversation goes places the first one didn't. We get into designing as a generalist instead of…
- Icon Design, Creative Freedom, and the Return of Visual Personality — with Josh Williams [Part 1] · 27 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 12Josh Williams has been designing icons since before it was a “real” job. These days, Josh is one of the most respected icon and identity designers working in the field. He helped…
- Laura Bohill: A Dream Project, a Design Crisis, and the Chisel Icon Pack · 53 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 11Episode Summary What happens when you give a world-class icon designer a dream brief with almost no boundaries? A brief existential crisis, and eventually a beautiful…
- How to Spot Great Leadership in Interviews (and Avoid Bad Managers) | Dave Gandy · 49 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 10In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt sits down with Font Awesome founder Dave Gandy to unpack what it really means to be a great employee and a great manager — without the…
- Website Color Theming Made Easy [Look Awesome Demo] · 21 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 9Look Awesome: Solving Color Once and for All Locking in the color palette for your project is one of those things that seems simple until you're actually doing it. Pick the wrong…
- Build Week: What we Made with AI [Part 2] with Dave + Travis · 25 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 8AI makes it easier to build almost anything. So why does that make the job harder? In this episode, Matt sits down with Font Awesome founder Dave Gandy and engineer Travis Chase…
- Build Week: What we Made with AI [Part 1] with Dave + Travis · 28 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 7💻 AI side quests, but make it Snuggle. 🤖✨ In this episode, we’re fresh off the Snuggle (our company retreat) and talking about what happens when you give a curious team some…
- Hiring Is a Two-Way Street — Here’s What Most People Miss · 32 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 6Job interviews aren’t just about proving you’re a fit — they’re about figuring out whether the company deserves you, too. 👀 In this episode, Matt chats with Font Awesome founder…
- New Font Awesome Features: PNG Downloads, Color Picker, and User Blender · 15 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 5In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt sits down with Ed and Francis to talk through three newly shipped Font Awesome features that are small, practical, and just the right…
- Eleventy Is Rebranding to Build Awesome: What Changes (and What Doesn’t) · 24 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 4Eleventy is becoming Build Awesome — and Zach Leatherman is here to explain what that actually means. In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt has a chat with Zach about the…
- Vic Bell on Designing Graphite: Hand-Drawn Icons for Font Awesome · 57 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 3In this episode, Matt and Jory sit down with UK-based icon designer + illustrator Vic Bell to talk about the brand-new Font Awesome icon pack, Graphite — a loose, hand-drawn set…
- How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality · 29 min · Řada 4 Epizoda 2Eleventy started as a side project. Now it’s a critical infrastructure for thousands of websites. TL;DR: Open source isn’t broken. But the way we fund it often is. Let’s talk…
