Although Shigetaka Kurita is often credited as the original emoji creator, the story is more complex and nuanced – and what better time to tell this story than following World Emoji Day, which takes ...

Emojis have become, without a doubt, a design classic. But how effective are they as a communication tool? We ask emoji inventor Shigetaka Kurita.

Can you imagine a world where you text without emojis? Here’s how it all started. Japanese characters, or "kanji," are largely based on Chinese ideograms, whose writing system is already highly ...

In 2013, Katrina Parrott came up with the idea of emojis in diverse skin tones, years before they made their way to smartphones around the world. Ten years later, the Black mom from League City, Texas ...