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 ...

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 ...

At a glance, emoji are simple. Each icon visually represents something instantly recognizable — food, a happy face, a high-five. The creation of an emoji is hardly so straightforward. Each icon ...

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 ...

It might be tempting to assume that new emoji are flown in by stork, handed down from high atop a mountain or mined in caves below the Silicon Valley giants’ headquarters. The truth is even more ...

When Joanna Figliozzi was in design school, she never imagined she’d end up as Kim Kardashian West’s personal emoji designer. But as a senior art director at Whalerock Industries, the West ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Teams is getting new 3D emoji today. The software giant has started ...

Finland, land of the midnight sun, saunas, black metal, and phones that were once cool, is now also the land of emoji. The Nordic country is the first in the world to release a set of ...

"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 ...