Every year, the Unicode Consortium decides on new emoji characters that will be coming to smartphones and other devices in ...

Formerly known as smileys and often confused with emoticons ... It's normally used in awe of something. Face With Symbols ...

First the thumbs up, now the smiley face. Young people have been urging everyone to stop using the ‘smiley’ emoji because it ...

Who creates the symbols so many of us now use to communicate? How do they get on our phones? And why can’t we all agree on ...

There are also some older text or online message symbols that aren't as commonly used, including the following. Emoticons are ...

The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story behind it - and it was around long before the emoticon. In 1963, comic artist and graphic designer Harvey Ball was commissioned by an ...

In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with ... first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between emoticons and emoji ...

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, 21-year-old Hafeezat Bishi spoke about her experience with the emoji as some of her new ...

Yet as societies and technologies evolve, what will become of the archaic winking-face emoji? How about the original simple ...

Some are obvious, like the bloodstained smiley face, which bookends the story and has become an iconic symbol that represents the series. The smiley face was designed to both geometrically and ...

Artist Matt Smiley is back with a new exhibition in Los Angeles. Smiley's latest art show — Love, Nostalgia, and the Tempest of My Mind — draws influences from iconic artists such as Picasso and ...