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 ...

It all started with a 3. In the late 1990s, the Japanese telecom giant NTT DoCoMo offered an early mobile service called i-mode that let users send small amounts of data over their pagers, including a ...

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 ...

GCHQ, the UK listening and code-breaking agency, tweeted a cryptic message made of emoji this week. The message, for those who could crack it, was an announcement of a new puzzle book. The emoji ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...