Ever since Apple popularized the Japanese emoticons on known as emoji with the release of i0S5, digital communication once confined to letters, numbers and punctuation has become a cartoonish ...

Of the enormous permanent collections owned by major museums, only a very, very small portion of artworks get to see the light of day at any given time. Many institutions have sought to change that ...

Emojis have officially entered the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, but those 176 characters probably look a little different than the ones US audiences are used to using to express ...

In today’s visually oriented culture, which increasingly communicates through images rather than text, emoji comprise a kind of “visual vernacular,” a language that conveys humor, ambiguity and ...

Remembering hundreds of Pantone colors is no easy task, so one design studio wants to help… with emoji. A design project by Burro Studio places emoji over Pantone color strips as a visual aid to ...

Back in 1999, when the mobile internet first flickered to life on Japan’s i-mode, email was confined to a snug 250 characters. Email! So when designer Shigetaka Kurita centered pixels on his potter’s ...

Since Apple introduced the illustrated characters to its iPhone library in 2011, emoji have been a beloved piece of the American texting vernacular. But to 25-year-old Liza Nelson, the artist and ...

Hieroglyphics are making an unlikely 21st century comeback, and it's all thanks to Millennials' insatiable appetite for texting. Young people might hate history class, but they can't get enough of the ...

inspiration comes from whatever -- and whoever -- is in the cultural zeitgeist, including celebs like Dolly Parton, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, and Snoop Dogg. Weston ...

Edward Hopper—the painter famous for documenting American society in the early 20th century—once noted that "a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people." If Hopper ...