{"product_id":"66027-emoji","title":"Emoji","description":"In 1999, NTT DOCOMO released a set of 176 emojis for mobile phones and pagers to facilitate the emerging practice of text messaging. Created by Shigetaka Kurita, a young designer at the Japanese telecommunications company, these pictograms quickly became the new digital \"body language\" in the profoundly impersonal, abstract world of electronic communication.\u003cbr\u003eWith now more than 2,600 characters, these pictograms (e = picture, moji = character) are indispensable in our online interactions and are part of the long history of communication – from the invention of writing to the introduction of printing and the dramatically accelerated pace of action in the smartphone era.\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Paul Galloway, Specialist for the Collection of Digital Design at New York's MoMA, demonstrates that the DNA of today's emojis is already present in Kurita's pixelated designs and traces their development to their current status as a global phenomenon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePAUL GALLOWAY is a Collections Specialist for Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He writes regularly for MoMA publications and co-curated Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design with Paola Antonelli in 2022.","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49690246480136,"sku":"9783775756280","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775756280_cedd6d86-a81e-476f-8da7-a7bf41527468.jpg?v=1744286720","url":"https:\/\/hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/66027-emoji","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}