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An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Re: An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Post by blanched »

dagmx wrote: post #10
j1000 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?

Simply because nobody has successfully pitched the Unicode group to add one. Anyone can pitch new emoji, they just have to go through the fairly easy but strict formal process.

Alex Schmidt, a humor writer (formerly of Cracked and others) did this process for the bison emoji. I enjoyed his “miniseries” about it: https://www.bisonemojipodcast.com/

Re: An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Post by amelius »

Aissen wrote: post #8
amelius wrote: post #2

In case anyone is actually interested in the emoji: https://emojipedia.org/apple

More specifically, it was this set: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2 Interesting tidbit: > Emoji support required iPhone OS 2.2 and a SoftBank SIM card.

To be honest, the images look like things I've seen a hundred times over in comic books and not much more original than GenAI.

Re: An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Post by throawayonthe »

amelius wrote: post #12
Aissen wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More specifically, it was this set: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2 Interesting tidbit: > Emoji support required iPhone OS 2.2 and a SoftBank SIM card.

To be honest, the images look like things I've seen a hundred times over in comic books and not much more original than GenAI.

is that not sorta the point? i don't get the genai reference

Re: An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Post by reaperducer »

amelius wrote: post #12
Aissen wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More specifically, it was this set: https://emojipedia.org/apple/iphone-os-2.2 Interesting tidbit: > Emoji support required iPhone OS 2.2 and a SoftBank SIM card.

To be honest, the images look like things I've seen a hundred times over in comic books and not much more original than GenAI.

not much more original than GenAI.

What exactly do you think the "GenAI" trained on?

Re: An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Post by wvbdmp »

j1000 wrote: post #9
holistio wrote: post #5

There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.

Also no thief emoji or pirate emoji. Can someone enlighten me why we don't have it?

What’s next, a cowboy emoji? A ninja emoji? But seriously, as much as I like emojis, I kind of feel like they should stick to emotions. Maybe other intangible things. They’re hard to convey verbally (and succinctly), simple concrete nouns are good for a bit of fun and for UI icons, but really not very useful if we’re being honest. Unless you’re texting with a lizard, or my lazy elementary-school niece who shouldn’t really have a phone anyway…

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Post by Jtarii »

wpm wrote: post #6
holistio wrote: post #5

There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.

Be the petty, small change you wish to see in the world: https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode

Gotta love websites that hijack basic browser functions, in this case forcing smooth scroll on.

Re: An interview with an Apple emoji designer

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Post by holistio »

wpm wrote: post #6
holistio wrote: post #5

There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.

Be the petty, small change you wish to see in the world: https://joypixels.com/blog/how-to-submit-an-emoji-to-unicode

I will be. Thanks.

By the way, Walnut Creek is less than 100 miles from Cupertino.

I love walnuts.

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