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As the designer of the first emoji for cellphones, Shigetaka Kurita periodically fields requests that he expand the lexicon of the pictogram-like characters.!
Shigetaka Kurita
Japanese interface designer and inventor of the emoji
Shigetaka Kurita (栗田 穣崇, born May 9, 1972, Gifu Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese interface designer 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 that has been clarified in recent years.[5][6] He was part of the team that created one of the first emojis used solely for communication, a heart-shaped pictogram that appeared on an NTT DoCoMopager aimed at teenagers.
It went on to become the Red Heart emoji.
In , year-old Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita was commissioned by telecom company NTT DOCOMO to design tiny graphics which could be.
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 game company owned by Kadokawa Dwango Corporation.
The NTT DoCoMo emoji set he created is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New