Although Shigetaka Kurita is often credited as the original emoji creator, the story is more complex and nuanced – and what better time to tell this story than following World Emoji Day, which takes ...

Emojis have become, without a doubt, a design classic. But how effective are they as a communication tool? We ask emoji inventor Shigetaka Kurita.

Can you imagine a world where you text without emojis? Here’s how it all started. Japanese characters, or "kanji," are largely based on Chinese ideograms, whose writing system is already highly ...