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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

There's pretty much an emoji for every situation. Heck, there are even a bunch that don't seem ideal for any situation (I'm looking at you, Money-Mouth). But among the dozens of official Unicode ...

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 ...

The flag of ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad's regime remains the standard emoji design across most, if not all platforms. But a new flag flies over Damascus and the rest of a now-free Syria. Scores of ...

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 ...