News
The government has asked how residents would express their city in symbols, with an open competition for the design of an emoji package representing this megalopolis.
News
The emotive faces from our keyboards are now literally plastered across a building in the city of Amersfoort in central Netherlands.
News
If you can't say it with words, you can now say it with expressions from Old Masters paintings.
News
The 176 pixellated pictograms created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1999 "are the humble masterpieces of the digital world," according to MoMA curator Paola Antonelli.
In Brief
Come fall, Apple will pry the gun emoji from your cold, texting hands.
Art
Some might find the translation of Vincent van Gogh’s “Self-Portrait With Bandaged Ear” into a smiling cartoon head spurting blood a little sacrilege, or just tacky, but it was only a matter of time before the emoji-fication of art history took it there.
Books
A new book published by Prestel explores the history of emoji and its rise as a global communication phenomenon.
In Brief
The country has developed more than 30 emojis that function as advertisements for all the things that make Finland unique.
News
Emoji have been widely praised for the way they can foster better communication. But what if they could also make it easier to remember things — for instance, the password to your bank account?
Art
Do emoji, which comprise so much of our textual communication, really constitute a language?
News
A new report breaking down emoji use by country and language found that hearts make up 55% of emoji typed by French speakers. That’s four times the international average.
Opinion
On the day that the world could finally send diverse-looking emoji, US-based bleach company Clorox made a very bad joke.