Shigetaka Kurita - emoji
Created in 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita (born 1972), a young designer at the Japanese telecom company NTT DOCOMO, emoji act as the body language of online speech. Emoji taken from the Japanese e for picture and moji for character bring nuance to our online interactions and are a part of the long history...
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Museum of Modern Art
2023
New York, NY Distributed in the United States and Canada by ARTBOOK/D.A.P. |
| Schriftenreihe: | MoMA one on one series
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Created in 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita (born 1972), a young designer at the Japanese telecom company NTT DOCOMO, emoji act as the body language of online speech. Emoji taken from the Japanese e for picture and moji for character bring nuance to our online interactions and are a part of the long history of improvements to human communication, from the invention of writing to the arrival of the printing press and the advent of computers. In this volume of the MoMA One on One series, collection specialist Paul Galloway traces the development of emoji from the cell phone companies and youth culture of 1990s Japan to its current status as a global phenomenon "In 1999 the Japanese mobile phone company NTT DOCOMO released a set of 176 emoji for mobile phones and pagers. Designed on a twelve-by-twelve-pixel grid, the emoji--a portmanteau of the Japanese words e, or "picture," and moji, or "character"--enhanced the visual interface for NTT DOCOMO's devices and facilitated the nascent practice of text messaging and mobile email. Drawing on sources as varied as Japanese graphic novels, the typeface Zapf Dingbats, and common emoticons (simple faces that computer users made out of preexisting punctuation marks), Kurita, a designer at NTT DOCOMO, included illustrations of weather phenomena, pictograms like the heart symbol, and a range of facial expressions. The shift toward concise, telegraphic correspondence that began with the advent of email in the 1970s accelerated dramatically when messaging moved to mobile devices. People had even less space and time to get their point across, and the conveyance of tone and emotion became both more difficult and more urgent. Emoji, when combined with text, allow for more nuanced intonation. Filling in for body language, they reassert the human within the deeply impersonal, abstract space of electronic communication. Now, with more than 2,600 in use, emoji have evolved far beyond NTT DOCOMO's original set into an essential, global, and increasingly complex companion to written language. Nonetheless, the DNA for today's emoji is clearly present in Kurita's humble pixelated designs."-- Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | 47 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts (farbig) 22,8 x 18,5 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781633451490 978-1-63345-149-0 1633451496 1-63345-149-6 |