Shigetaka Kurita: Emoji

Created in 1998 by Shigetaka Kurita (born 1972), a young designer at the Japanese telecom company NTT DOCOMO, emoji act as the body language of online speech. Emoji - taken from the Japanese e for picture and moji for character - bring nuance to the online interactions and are a part of the long history of improvements to human communication, from the invention of writing to the arrival of the printing press and the advent of computers. The Shigetaka Kurita: Emoji is by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.