When Shigetaka Kurita created the first emoji in 1999, he had to work within a grid measuring 12 by 12 pixels. That’s a total of 144 dots, or 18 bytes of data, meaning that the Japanese designer ...

New York City’s Museum of Modern Art has added the world’s first emoji set to its permanent collection, The New York Times reports.The set includes 176 images created with just six colors on a ...

Take your emoji obsession to new heights with this website that makes it easy to turn your favorite photos into an emoji mosaic. Engineered by New York Times web developer Eric Andrew Lewis, the ...

New York’s Museum of Modern Art has a cute new collection: the original set of 176 emoji symbols. The 12 pixel x 12 pixel images were a gift from the Japanese carrier Nippon Telegraph and Telephone.

New York's Museum of Modern Art announced on Wednesday that it had acquired the original set of 176 emojis by a Japanese phone company for its permanent collection, which will now hang alongside ...