I have a bunch of coffee table books, most of them related to design or photography. It’s great to have them around so my guests and I can flip through them every now and then. But there’s one book ...

Emojis can do more than just spice up text-based communication. Each one carries a bit of internet history. A Kickstarter campaign launched Monday gives customers the chance to experience the 176 ...

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 ...

Design Week: Tell us about how the original emoji came about. Jesse Reed: The basic history goes like this – NTT DoCoMo is a large Japanese telecommunications company that was founded in 1991. Between ...

In the arenas of ancient Rome, the thumbs-up was a matter of life and death. So scholars have extrapolated from the elusive history of ancient gestures. The fates of defeated gladiators were ...

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 designer’s ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Post by The Book of Mormon on Broadway. A brilliant visualization of the opening ...

Here at the Book Bench, we’re big believers in the whole a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words thing, so we’re totally into a new project called Emoji Dick. Emoji are the souped-up emoticons used in ...

Apple has enhanced its Font Book app for managing installed font faces, and has added a new Emoji font commonly used in chat to express ideograms. Font Book 3.0 now provides more flexible displays of ...

There are 20 titles to guess, written by acclaimed authors spanning the 19th to the 21st century. And a few have been turned into films, which may give you a clue if you haven't actually read the book ...