Cue up your pictographs and send your sentiments my babies, World Emoji Day is upon us. From hieroglyphs and rune stones to stop signs and the fraught eggplant, human beings have long used icons as ...

From the stop sign to the laugh-cry emoji, symbols play a critical and ubiquitous role in everyday life. A forthcoming exhibition at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, “Give Me a Sign: The ...

The proposal for a mammoth emoji—coming to an iPhone near you next month—doesn’t just give a brief natural history of the extinct pachyderm. It also includes a chart comparing the incidence of the ...