News
Asians Meet New Yellow Emoji with Frowny Face
Apple’s new release of iOS 8.3 beta and OS X 10.10.3 beta for testers includes a long-awaited emoji update, with new, racially diverse humanoid emoji.
Emoji
News
The Many Faces of Cindy Sherman, Turned into Emoji
There are few human emotions that have not been captured, in one series or another, by Cindy Sherman.
In Brief
More Emojis = More Sex
The next time your parents and other denizens of the older generation criticize you for using too many emojis, you can scandalize them further by retorting that more emojis correlate with more sex.
In Brief
Emoji Update Promises Racial Diversity, but No Multiracial Couples
Emoji will become more racially diverse in 2015. An update slated to be released next year will allow users to choose between five different skin tones for all their humanoid emoji characters.
In Brief
'The Shining' in Emoji Is Pretty Great
Emoji translation is a fine art. The first masterpiece of the genre was undoubtedly Emoji Dick (aka Moby Dick in emoji) by Fred Benenson, but since then there have been varying degrees of success at translating the true essence of a text into a string of mostly adorable symbols.
In Brief
250 New Emoji Are on the Way
The Unicode Consortium (which sounds like a comic book crime organization) has released approximately 250 emoji as part of Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard, which includes 2,834 new characters.
In Brief
Dumb Emoji Art History
Hokusai must be turning in his grave.
Opinion
Emojis May Be Going Multiculti, but What About Art?
Here at Hyperallergic, we've discussed — and griped about — the limited menu of emoji on smartphones but now there's word that Apple may expand the usual emoji suspects with more racial diversity to reflect a more inclusive reality. But can I suggest a few others?
Opinion
The Yayoi Kusama Experience at David Zwirner in Emoji
Some things are simply better said in emoji …
Art
Why Do Emoji Fascinate Us?
Last night's opening of the Emoji Art and Design Show was a light-hearted celebration of those pictograms that have crept into our conversations and lives in every which way. The exhibition felt more design than art, and the pop-up marketplace featured a number of — you guessed it — emoji-related pr
Opinion
Guaranteed to Make You Smile: Emoji Art History 2.0
Thanks to Annie Werner at Tumblr, who has pointed out that Emoji Art History has gone to the next level.
Opinion
The Most and Least Popular Emoji on Twitter
Ever wonder which emoji are most popular with users? Now Emojitracker is tracking Twitter users to find out which symbols are being used the most right now.