Shigetaka Kurita

Shigetaka Kurita (栗田穣崇) (born May 9, 1972, Gifu Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese interface designer and often cited for his early work with emoji sets.[1][2][3][4] Many refer to him as the creator of the emoji, a claim clarified in recent years.[5][6]

Kurita now works for Dwango Co. Ltd., a Japanese games company owned by Kadokawa Dwango Corporation.

In 1999, while he was working as a designer for mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo and their upcoming mobile system i-mode, Kurita designed a set of 176 emojis using grid of 12x12 pixels that eventually started a global trend in the use of pictograms to communicate ideas through text messages. This followed emoji support from Softbank in 1997, with Emojipedia noting that Kurita's set was "more plentiful, and more popular" than Softbank's.[7]

To make the emojis, Kurita got inspiration from the manga and Chinese characters and street signs.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has added the original set of emoji to its collection.[8][9][10]

References
  1. "Shigetaka Kurita: The man who invented the emoji". Toronto Star. 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  2. Prisco, Jacopo (2018-05-23). "Shigetaka Kurita: The man who invented emoji". CNN Style. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  3. "Shigetaka Kurita: creó los emojis y nunca cobró los derechos de autor". Perfil.com (in Spanish). 2018-06-17. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  4. Negishi, Mayumi (2014-03-26). "Meet Shigetaka Kurita, the Father of Emoji". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  5. Burge, Jeremy (2019-03-08). "Correcting the Record on the First Emoji Set". Emojipedia.
  6. McCulloch, Gretchen (2019-07-23). Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-7352-1095-0.
  7. Burge, Jeremy (2019-03-08). "Correcting the Record on the First Emoji Set". Emojipedia.
  8. McCurry, Justin (2016-10-27). "The inventor of emoji on his famous creations – and his all-time favorite". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  9. 株式会社インプレス (2016-10-27). "絵文字、ニューヨークMoMAのコレクションに" [Emoji in the collection of New York MoMA]. ケータイ Watch (in Japanese). Retrieved 2018-06-17.
  10. "The Original Emojis From 1999 Are Getting Their Own Coffee Table Book". Mental Floss. 2018-05-01. Retrieved 2018-06-17.
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