Shigetaka Kurita Autograph Profile by RACC
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- Shigetaka Kurita
- Born May 9, 1972
This development and the aftermath of its use, led Kurita to design a set of 176 colored emojis. Many of the general-use emojis used today by Unicode can be traced back to Kurita's set. He now works for Dwango Co. Ltd., a Japanese games company owned by Kadokawa Dwango Corporation. The NTT DoCoMo emoji set he created is now on display in Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.
While emojis existed prior to the 1990s, they were often defined as pictograms in Asia. The term emoji is of Japanese origin, with the term only adopted in the west from 2010 onwards. Japan itself also str… Read more of Biography...
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