Freedom, Equality, Gophers 🕺🏼
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A designer describes how they turned Go’s original mascot assets—limited, expressionless illustrations and a restrictive license—into the widely used Free Gophers Pack. The talk covers the product-focused process and practical steps taken to redesign the gopher art, expand its expressions, and relicense the assets so the community can freely use them.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:15What is Free Goersack
- 2:22History of Gopher mascot
- 8:07Designing gophers process
- 13:49Character design philosophy
- 14:32Free Goersack pack contents
- 16:43Project publishing and promotion
- 18:10License issues and fixes
- 21:59Free Goersack license rights
- 25:57Custom illustrations for libraries
- 27:27Charity donations
- 29:12Printshop and fan projects
- 31:01Updates and future plans
- 31:43Neural networks inspiration
- 33:09Q&A
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