Emoji Wrap — The Emoji Podcast from Emojipedia
🥇 The world's number one emoji podcast. News and commentary on emojis, stickers, and all things mobile. Hosted by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge, with special guests.
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.
👀 117 new emojis have just been announced, and we discuss them all.
- 📝 New Emoji List
- 🔥 Original headline called it the "everything's fine" emoji
- 🤣 David Mack on Twitter
- 💁🏻♀️AOC on Twitter
- 🧂 Lance Ulanoff on Twitter
- 🔞 Emojipedia After Dark
- 🎤 Al Yankovic on Twitter
- 🚗 Ford's "Secret" emoji proposal
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🥳 A special #WorldEmojiDay episode with not one but two guests. Discussing Apple's emoji preview, and emojis replacing IRL gestures.
- 📘 Because Internet (book)
- 🤷 Emoji aren’t ruining language: they’re a natural substitute for gesture
- 👩⚖️ Emojis and the law
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- 👉 Gretchen McCulloch on Twitter @GretchenAMcC
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📜 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.
🤗 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.
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.
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.
🐢 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.
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.
📖 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.
🍏 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?
💖 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.
🚰 Animoji leaked before the Apple Event, do emoji bots speed anything up, and some breaking news about Messenger emojis. With special guest Christina Warren.
🤗 We're back! World Emoji Day antics, Android Oreo, and what's up with Samsung? With Jeremy Burge and special guest Florence Ion.
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.
Live from Emojicon in San Fransisco: 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.
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.
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.
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.
Emoji Wrap is coming soon. Thanks for subscribing!
Twitter:
- 👉 Follow the podcast on Twitter @emojiwrap
- 👉 Follow Jeremy on Twitter @jeremyburge
Thanks to:
- 🎨 Joshua Jones for the cover art
- 🎤 Jonathan Mann for the music
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