Shigetaka Kurita

Cultural/Communication

1999 yılında NTT DoCoMo'nun i-mode mobil internet servisi için 176 adet 12×12 piksellik tasarımdan oluşan ilk emoji setini yaratan Japon sanatçı.

Shigetaka Kurita was a member of the team developing NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile internet service in the late 1990s. He created 176 emoji to help facilitate electronic communication, drawing inspiration from manga, kanji, and street signs.

The original 176 emoji covered weather, traffic, technology, and basic emotions in a 12×12 pixel grid — far simpler than today's detailed designs. Kurita's original emoji set is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

Though Kurita created the first set, emoji evolved through contributions from multiple Japanese carriers before Unicode standardization in 2010.

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'Resimli karakter' anlamına gelen Japonca bir kelime (絵文字): fikir, duygu ve nesneleri ifade etmek için dijital iletişimde kullanılan küçük grafik semboller. i-mode i-mode
1999 yılında başlatılan ve metin iletişimini zenginleştirmek amacıyla ilk emojilerin oluşturulduğu NTT DoCoMo'nun mobil internet platformu.

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