It happened this past week ... a huge new honor for those tiny cell phone pictographs. New York’s Museum of Modern Art announced Wednesday it has acquired the original 176 emoji, first introduced by ...

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 ...

The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . The inaugural event, taking place over three days, was the brainchild of Jennifer 8.

As a typeface designer for Adobe, Paul Hunt spends most of his time creating the building blocks of written language. Fonts communicate more than just the words on the page; the way they arc, curve, ...

Facebook’s new emoji include skin tone variants, which iOS already has and which is coming to Android soon. There will also be more female and gender-agnostic options for existing emoji, making this ...

When design leads to friendship, and that friendship leads back to design, magic happens. This is the story of how an intern and her mentor designed Apple’s original emoji set and together changed the ...

The high and low collided at the world’s first emoji convention in San Francisco on Saturday, and the result was . Linguists, emoji designers from tech powerhouses like Google and officials from the ...