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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is emoji the new global language? The tsunami of emoji – which is Japanese for picture character – engulfed the world in 2011 and never receded. More than 6 billion emoji are sent every day and ...

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 ...

Not every American animated feature released nowadays needs – or frankly even deserves – a printed art-of or making-of book. But that doesn’t mean that the work created for animated features doesn’t ...

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 ...

Leveraging post-literate tools like YouTube and emojis to create a website and mobile app that allows people to review the books they’re reading while they’re reading them, Beek is a startup that ...

Do you know your Harry Potter from your Jungle Book? Test your emoji translation skills with these fun brainteasers THINK you know your emojis? Put your knowledge to the test with this fun quiz.