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Google 'professional women' emoji nominated for Design of the Year

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Newspaper | Telegraph
Date | 16.8.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, gender, Google
Summary | The Design Museum in London nominated Google's professional emojis for design of the year. Google introduced a new set of emojis to better reflect women's situation.
Image Description | Images of female emojis.
Image Tags | emojis

Google marks World Emoji Day with a brand new set of emoji and bids farewell to its 'blobs'

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Newspaper | Mirror
Date | 17.7.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | emojis, Google
Summary | Google unveiled its new emojis on World Emoji Day. Google said they would remove their 'blobs' and add a new set of emojis.
Image Description | Images of Google's new emojis, and people dressed up as emojis in London.
Image Tags | emojis, female(s)

Google is killing off Android's emoji blobs

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Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 23.5.2017
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | diversity, emojis, Google
Summary | Google are changing their indiosyncratic emoji blobs into more conventional round, more humanoid emojis. Part of the reason may be the Unicode Consortium has begun introducing skin and hair color options for more diversity. This way, emojis are becoming more humanoid and less abstract. Google is following suit so as to ensure maximum emotional compatibility between smartphone operation systems.
Image Description | Evolutions of emojis in Android from Emojipedia.
Image Tags | emojis

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