Laura Bohill: A Dream Project, a Design Crisis, and the Chisel Icon Pack
About this episode
Laura Bohill discusses her experience designing the Chisel icon pack for Font Awesome 7 and the creative challenges she faced.
Episode 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 type-inspired icon packs for Font Awesome 7. 😅 In this episode, Matt and Jory chat with icon designer Laura Bohill about the making of Chisel — the wonderfully chunky icon pack she designed for Font Awesome 7. They get into the weird magic of creative constraints, why icon design is really just tiny-illustration puzzle solving, ...
People in this episode
Hosts: Matt, Jory
Guest: Laura Bohill
Topics covered
- icon design
- creative constraints
- design process
- entrepreneurship
- technology
Keywords
- icon design
- Chisel Icon Pack
- Font Awesome
- creative constraints
- design crisis
- entrepreneurship
- illustration
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Font Awesome
Products: Chisel Icon Pack
Books & works: Font Awesome 7
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