Emoticons were initially created to help illustrate hard-to-explain emotions in text, but as it turns out, they’re actually obscuring the way we communicate. A study from the University of Minnesota’s GroupLens laboratory …
Fresh off a proposal to update a few Emoji that we’ve all been using wrong, Unicode has finalized 38 brand new Emoji for the upcoming 9.0 update in 2016. Included in the …
According to Unicode—the people that set the standards for emoticons around the world—we’ve been using many of our favorite Emoji all wrong. In a new proposal, Unicode suggests a few changes that …
Sometimes your smartphone’s pre-programmed emojis just aren’t enough—and that’s where Cindy Sherman-Icons come in. Thanks to New York artist Hyo Hong, you can download 20 faces taken from the 61-year-old artist’s past …