When the very first set of emoji was designed by Japanese engineer Shigetaku Kurita in the 1990s, pixel-y dots within a 12-by-12 dot grid were about the entirety of what could be conveyed in emoji ...

Paul D. Hunt pushed the Unicode Consortium away from stereotypical gender iconography. Last year the Unicode Consortium—the group responsible for the selection and design of emoji—released a new ...

` ️ ⛄️ When words fail us, emoji are always there to fill in the blanks. But there are times when finding that perfect ...

O'Plerou Grebet is a 22-year-old graphic design student in Ivory Coast. Everywhere he looks, he sees signs of Western influence — from the glass skyscrapers and malls lining the streets in his home ...

Jennifer Daniel is Google's emoji interpreter. The Unicode Consortium picks the actual content, but she gets to decide what makes an emoji "Googley" and design them accordingly. The job requires ...

When emoji first began populating Japanese cellphone screens in 1999, modern communication was forever changed. The digital image bank, created by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita to convey lengthy ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Rebecca Blaesing thinks her new piñata emoji might just help make the world ...

"We are living like we're Western people," he says. "It's like we are not proud of our own culture." That even applies to the symbols he texts to friends using the messaging apps on his phone (they ...