A new book celebrates the original emoji set, created in just a matter of weeks in 1999 by Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita on a grid of 12 by 12 dots.

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advertisement 10-26-2016 NEWS These original 1999 emoji are now officially little tiny works of art New York’s Museum of Modern Art has a cute new collection: the original set of 176 emoji symbols.

They are used millions of times a day by people across the world and now emojis will make the leap from the screen to the art gallery wall.