Happy #WorldEmojiDay!
Emojipedia: July 17 is World Emoji Day Everywhere Now
First Look: New Emojis Coming to iOS in 2020
MOMA: Shigetaka Kurita, Emoji (1998-1999)
In 1999 the Japanese mobile phone company NTT DOCOMO released a set of 176 emoji for mobile phones and pagers. Designed on a twelve-by-twelve-pixel grid, the emoji—a portmanteau of the Japanese words e, or “picture,” and moji, or “character”—enhanced the visual interface for NTT DOCOMO’s devices and facilitated the nascent practice of text messaging and mobile email. Drawing on sources as varied as Japanese graphic novels, the typeface Zapf Dingbats, and common emoticons (simple faces that computer users made out of preexisting punctuation marks), Kurita, a designer at NTT DOCOMO, included illustrations of weather phenomena, pictograms like the heart symbol, and a range of facial expressions.
MOMA: The Original NTT DOCOMO Emoji Set Has Been Added to The Museum of Modern Art’s Collection
Standards Manual launching the First Ever Book of the Original Emoji from Japan
Why Do We Use Emojis Anyway? A Fascinating History of Emoticons
World Emoji Day: If Shigetaka Kurita Did Not Create The First Emoji Who Did?
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