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 ...

It all started with a 3. In the late 1990s, the Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo offered an early mobile service called i-mode that let users send small amounts of data over their pagers, including a ...

(CNN) — When Shigetaka Kurita created the first emoji in 1999, he had to work within a grid measuring 12 by 12 pixels. That's a total of 144 dots, or 18 bytes of data, meaning that the Japanese ...

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Why type when you can emoji? The modern-day hieroglyphs, now a ubiquitous form of digital communication, have largely supplanted the written word -- at least for simple, short-burst communiques: ...

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 ...

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City added the original set of 176 emoji to its permanent collection, The New York Times reports. The glyphs were released and 1999 and designed for pagers made by ...

Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth, the design duo behind the republished MTA, NASA, and EPA standards manuals, are back with a new book: Emoji, a collection of the original 176 emoji characters. The ...