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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.
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S4E4 Eleventy Is Rebranding to Build Awesome: What Changes (and What Doesn’t)
Eleventy 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 Build Awesome Kickstarter,…
S4E3 Vic Bell on Designing Graphite: Hand-Drawn Icons for Font Awesome
In 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 that brings texture,…
S4E2 How Eleventy Survived: Funding, Growth, and Open Source Reality
Eleventy 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 about what actually…
S4E1 2025 Awesomeverse Recap with Matt and Jory
Happy New Year from the Awesomeverse! In this episode, Matt and Jory kick off 2026 by recapping all the wild, weird, and wonderful things that happened across Font Awesome and Web Awesome in 2025.…
S3E26 Inclusive Nerdery: The Secret Sauce of Great Teams | Podcast Awesome
What is nerdery, really? 🤓 In this episode of Podcast Awesome, we dig into the heart of Font Awesome’s culture — inclusive nerdery. It's not about lone geniuses or command line gatekeepers. It’s…
S3E25 Andy Maier on Curiosity, Creativity, and the Force That Binds It All
🎬 What do Star Wars, oil painting, and storytelling have in common? Turns out: everything. In this curiosity-fueled episode, filmmaker and multi-hyphenate creative Andy Maier (Soon Agency) joins host…
S3E24 Web Awesome Has Landed: Here’s How to Stop Starting From Scratch
Episode SummaryWhat does it really take to ship something as powerful, polished, and downright magical as Web Awesome? In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt sits down with Lindsay and Cory, the…
S3E23 WordPress Just Got Awesome (Again) – Font Awesome Plugin v5 Deep Dive with Mike Wilkerson
Episode Summary:We're heading back to the basement — (sort of). In this episode, Matt catches up with Mike Wilkerson, the OG guest of Podcast Awesome, to unveil the biggest update yet to the official…
S3E22 Living the Dream: Dan Cederholm's Creative Journey [Part 2] | Podcast Awesome
🧠 What do LEGO logos, hand-puppet dreams, citrus gadgets, and naming things "Turbo" have in common? They're all part of Dan Cederholm’s design universe — and part of this wide-ranging, joy-filled…
S3E21 Living the Dream: Dan Cederholm's Creative Journey (Part 1)
SummaryDesigner, author, and co-founder of Dribbble, Dan Cederholm joins Podcast Awesome to chat with Matt Johnson and Jory Raphael about finding joy in creativity later in life, making fonts just…
S3 How We Built Web Awesome with 11ty (and Why It’s So Fast)
Build once, run everywhere. In this full-nerd, front-end-leaning episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt sits down with Zach Leatherman (creator of Eleventy) and Konnor Rogers (Web Awesome developer) to…
S3E18 Clippy Cult: The Paperclip That Wouldn’t Quit
Inside the UX lessons, internet lore, and surprising comeback of ClippyLove him or loathe him, you remember him. Clippy — the googly-eyed paperclip that lived inside Microsoft Word — has become a…
S3E18 🎙️ Rage Coding, Headless Web Components, and the Future of DX with Burton Smith
Have you ever rage-coded your way into building a developer tool that actually fixes things? Burton Smith has. And we’re here for it.In this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt and Web Awesome's boss,…
S3E17 🖇️ Podcast Awesome: The Story Behind the Stapler Icon
🔴 “Excuse me … I believe you have my stapler?”One line. Infinite memes. A red-hot icon.In this episode of The Story Behind the Icon, we dive deep into the surprisingly rich lore behind the humble…
Invisible Creature’s Don Clark on Nostalgia, Iconography, and Staying Human
Designing Joy: Don Clark of Invisible Creature on Creativity, Collectibles & CultureIn this episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt hangs out with legendary designer Don Clark of Invisible Creature to…
S3E15 Behind the Icon: Cowbell-Circle-Plus
💥 A Podcast Awesome Deep CutEpisode Description:🛎️ Guess what? We got a fever … and the only prescription is … well, you know. In this very special episode of Podcast Awesome, we hit pause on our…
S3E14 The GI Joe PSAs and the Birth of Internet Weird
Pork chop sandwiches!! 🫡 🏃♂️➡️Gather round the interwebs young Gen Xers and Elder Millennials ... In this oddball solo episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt rewinds to the early 2000s and dives deep…
S3E13 Set Us Up the Meme: The Strange Tale of All Your Base
Where did the “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” meme come from — and why did it break the early internet?In this nostalgic deep dive, Matt explores the wackadoodle origin of one of the internet’s most…
S3E12 A Short History of Lorem Ipsum (and a Rant)
“Layouts are sexy but, you know, words still matter.” In this solo rant-style episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt takes a silly, unhinged dive into the world of Lorem Ipsum — the gibberish placeholder…
S3E11 From Stickers to State Law: The Accessibility Icon Story
Design meets activism. Philosophy meets iconography. Wheelchairs meet graffiti.In this philosophy-packed episode of Podcast Awesome, Matt chats with professor, artist, and co-founder of the…
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Podcast Awesome has published 76 episodes since December 2022, covering topics in Arts, Business.
Podcast Awesome is currently highly active with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 28m.
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