Episodes
🚀 Should there be a cyclone emoji for both the southern and northern hemisphere? Are pink ballet shoes problematic? How the future of the emoji keyboard is being shaped and the questions it raises. With special guest Jennifer Daniel, Chair of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee.
Published 12/11/20
👀 117 new emojis have just been announced, and we discuss them all.
Published 01/31/20
🥳 A special #WorldEmojiDay episode with not one but two guests. Discussing Apple's emoji preview, and emojis replacing IRL gestures.
Published 07/17/19
📜 Back to the history books: news of an emoji set that came out TWO YEARS before the well known "1999" Japanese emoji origin. Why Apple's emoji people didn't originally have hands, the "clompy mule", and can we have the stitched leather notes and calendar app back? With special guest former Apple emoji designer (and now design director at Yap Studios) Ollie Wagner.
Published 04/08/19
🤗 We're back! Hot takes galore on the internet with the new emoji release, how to spot a PR campaign, and officer I'm calling about a car with an emoji license plate. With special guest Emojipedia's Senior Emoji Lexicographer John Kelly.
Published 03/01/19
We finally see every new emoji coming to iOS in 2018, did Apple try and spoil Microsoft's big day, and what's got the New Yorkers upset? With special guest Jason Snell from Six Colors.
Published 10/09/18
Who is behind the emojis on Nintendo Switch, tough pistol decisions, and why doesn't anyone know how to hug? With special guest Rick Moby from EmojiOne.
Published 09/02/18
Who chooses the flavor of the cupcake 🧁 emoji, why is Microsoft's ant 🐜 red, and would a white wine 🍷 emoji be a help or a hindrance? With special guests Judy Safran-Aasen and Mike LaJoie from the team behind Microsoft's emoji font.
Published 08/08/18
🐢 Turtles that don't look like old men, a sweaty heart 💦 emoji, Santa's orange hat 🎅 and making men cry 😭 are discussed with the person in charge of Android's emoji designs: Jennifer Daniel.
Published 07/13/18
Twemoji is now all over your 📲 Android phone, and Twitter Design Lead Bryan Haggerty talks Twemoji Easter Eggs, why the new shoe is red, and (scoop! 🗞 ) ✨ when the new emojis are coming to Twitter.
Published 06/01/18
📖 Dictionary.com has added emojis to its collection of words. So is Jane Solomon, a lexicographer at Dictionary.com, my new nemesis? We'll see as I speak to her about 🐐 and more.
Published 03/29/18
🍏 A very special guest: one of the designers behind Apple's original emoji set, Angela Guzman, joins the show. These designs are some of the best known in the world. What went into making them, and which ones stand out 10 years later?
Published 02/01/18
💖 It's new emoji week for iOS users! Plus why isn't Slack updating their emojis, and what exactly did Google CEO Sundar Pichai think would happen when he made a little joke about a burger.
Published 11/02/17
🚰 Animoji leaked before the Apple Event, do emoji bots speed anything up, and some breaking news about Messenger emojis. With special guest Christina Warren.
Published 10/02/17
🤗 We're back! World Emoji Day antics, Android Oreo, and what's up with Samsung? With Jeremy Burge and special guest Florence Ion.
Published 08/31/17
Custom emoji fonts, :hedgehog:, Clippy, the difference between gender neutral and gender inclusive, and what is a merperson? With Jeremy Burge and special guest Paul Hunt, a font designer from Adobe.
Published 12/12/16
Live from Emojicon: Emoji professions, why hats on emoji are hard, mixed feelings about blobs, and decisions about emoji realism. With Jeremy Burge and special guests Rachel Been, Agustin Fonts and Mark Davis from Google.
Published 11/17/16
Messenger and Twemoji, iOS 10 designs, more on the pistol emoji, and a look at iOS 10 stickers. With Jeremy Burge and special guest Gedeon Maheux: co-founder of The Iconfactory.
Published 09/27/16
The pre-iOS 10 episode. Two Owens, Samsung emoji weirdness, iMessage stickers, no love for Apple Watch emoji, iOS 10 redesign, Jumbomoji and Apple’s emoji press release. With Jeremy Burge and special guest Owen Williams: host of Charged podcast.
Published 09/05/16
Which country wanted two camel emojis, who proposed the middle finger emoji, emoji consistency, and if we’re getting female emojis, what happened to gender-neutrality? With Jeremy Burge and special guest Mark Davis: co-founder and president of Unicode.
Published 08/24/16
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Published 08/09/16