"The Smiley Faces" – where Emojis come from and what they acutally mean

A SHORT
INTRODUCTION
TO EMOTICONS
WHERE THEY COME FROM
AND WHAT THEY MEAN
PHILIPP CSERNALABICS
graPHiCS GRAPHICDESIGN

WE AREUSING THEM
[ ]
ALMOSTEVERYDAY
BUT WHAT DO YOUKNOW ABOUT THEM?
😳 😄 😘 😋
😯

THISSLIDE SHOW
WILLINTRODUCEYOU TO THEWORLD OFEMOTICONS
😄

EMOTICONS
COME
FROM
JAPAN
絵文字 [EMOJI] MEANS,LITERALLY TRANSLATED,PICTURE CHARACTER.
えもじ
🎌
☺️

AND THISIS THE GUY[SHIGETAKA KURITA]WHO INVENTED
THEM
KURITA WASTHE FIRST TO CREATE EMOJIS FOR
MOBILE PHONES AS A TEAMMEMBER OF DOCOMO’S I-MODE
[THE WORLD FIRST MOBILE INTERNET SYSTEM]
INSPIRED BY MANGAS, CHINESE
LETTERS AND STREET SIGNS HE
TRIED TO CONVEY EMOTIONS IN ONE
SYMBOL.
😚
FOR MORE ON THAT STORY VISIT THEVERGE.COM/2013/3/4/3966140/HOW-EMOJI-CONQUERED-THE-WORLD

😎
THE SET OF EMOTICONSTHAT IS BEST-KNOWN WASACTUALLY DESIGNED BY
 APPLE
IT’S A FONT CALLED“APPLE COLOR EMOJI“AND IS BASED ON THEUNICODE EMOJI
CHARACTERS FIRST USED INJAPANESE MOBILE PHONES
YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED WHERE
SOME OF THOSE CHARACTERS CAME
FROM, AND HOW THEY ARE ALL
CONNECTED WITH JAPAN
SEE ALSO SUPPORT.APPLE.COM/EN-US/HT4976

HERE’S WHAT SOME
OF THEM [ ] ACTUALLY MEAN

THIS IS A JAPANESE OGRE – MANY JAPANESE
VILLAGES CELEBRATE FESTIVALS TO MAKE THE OGRES
[OR EVIL SPIRITS] GO OUT AND LET BLESSINGS COME IN.
👹
🙈 🙉 🙊AND THOSE LITTLE FELLOWS ARE SUPPOSED TO GUARD
AGAINST EVIL SPIRITS,
SEE-NO-EVIL, HEAR-NO-EVIL AND SAY-NO-EVIL MONKEY.
THIS IS A TENGU, OR GOBLIN, AND IN CONTRAST TO THE
ABOVE IT IS SEEN AS A SHINTO GOD OR IN BUDDHISM TO
BE A DISRUPTIVE DEMONS AND BRINGERS OF WAR.
👺

THIS ONE IS NOT A BALLERINA, BUT A GIRL
MAKING THE GESTURE OF “OKAY” OR “YES”…
🙆
…AND THIS IS THE GESTURE FOR NO [X]
🙅

THE GUY ABOVE IS “HEAVILY” BOWING, AS
BOWING USUALLY GOES WITH SAYING THANK YOU,
OR ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS, IN JAPAN.
🙇

THIS WAVE REFERES TO THE THE WOODBLOCK PRINT
OF HOKUSAI’S “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” –
PROPABLY THE MOST FAMOUS JAPANESE ARTWORK
🌊
FOR MORE ON THAT PICTURE VISIT WIKIPEDIA.ORG/WIKI/THE_GREAT_WAVE_OFF_KANAGAWA

THIS ONE IS NOT AN EASTER-ISLAND-STATUE AS
KNOWN FROM A NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, NEITHER IS
IT SQUIDWARD’S HOUSE – IT’S MOYAI, A JAPANESE
STONE SCULPTURE.
🗿
IMAGE SOURCES: HTTP://I.YTIMG.COM/VI/W_O15UFBNZU/HQDEFAULT.JPG, HTTP://IMG2.WIKIA.NOCOOKIE.NET/__CB20130407135443/SPONGEBOB/IMAGES/B/B9/SQUIDWARD'S_HOUSE_IN_THE_BEGINNING.PNG AND WIKIPEDIA
❌ ❌ ⭕️

💳
AND HERE’S WHAT’S WRITTEN IN THIS BOOK:
HERE’S TO THE CRAZY ONES. THE MISFITS. THE TROUBLE MAKERS. THE ROUND PEGS IN THE SQUARE
HOLES – THE ONES WHO SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. THEY ARE NOT FOND OF RULES. AND THEY HAVE NO
RESPECT FOR THE STATUS QUO. YOU CAN QUOTE THEM, DISAGREE WITH THEM, GLORIFY OR VILIFY THEM.
ABOUT THE ONLY THING YOU CAN’T DO IS…
THERE IT STOPS. IT’S A QUOTE FROM APPLE’S FAMOUS
THINK DIFFERENT AD, WHICH CONTINUES LIKE THAT:
IGNORE THEM. BECAUSE THEY CHANGE THINGS. THEY PUSH THE HUMAN RACE FORWARD. AND WHILE
SOME MAY SEE THEM AS THE CRAZY ONES, WE SEE GENIUS. BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CRAZY
ENOUGH TO THINK THEY CAN CHANGE THE WORLD, ARE THE ONES WHO DO.
📇
📖
BOTH, THE CREDIT CARD AND THE BUSINESS
CARD BELONG TO JOHN APPLESEED, YOU CAN
CONTACT HIM AT APPLESEED@ME.COM

OH YEAH, AND THAT’S A NAME TAG.
📛
THIS ONE IS NOT A SYMBOL FOR HOT COFFEE,
BUT FOR AN ONSEN – THE JAPANESE HOT
SPRINGS.
♨️

THIS IS THE SYMBOL FOR “BEGINNER” IN JAPAN.
IT CAN FOR EXAMPLE BE FOUND ON CARS THAT ARE DRIVEN
BY NEW DRIVERS.
🔰

🍵🍶🍛🍥🍙🍘
🍚🍜🍲🍢🍡🍠
DRINKS AND FOOD
JAPANESE
GREEN TEA
JAPANESE
SAKE
CURRY
RICE
FISH
CAKE
RICE
BALL
RICE
CRACKER
BOWL
OF RICE
RAMEN
NOODLES
POT OF
FOOD ODEN DANGO
[FISH]
SWEET
POTATO

🏢 🏣 🏪
…AND THE TRUE MEANING OF THE BUILDINGS
OFFICE
BUILDING
A JAPANESE
POST OFFICE
CONVENIENCE
STORE
🏨 🏥 🏩NOT A HOSPITAL,
A HOTEL
THAT’S A
HOSPITAL
AND A
LOVE HOTEL*
*A LOVE HOTEL IS A TYPE OF SHORT-STAY HOTEL FOUND QUITE
FREQUENTLY IN JAPAN – OPERATED PRIMARILY TO ALLOW COUPLES
PRIVACY FOR… LET’S LEAVE THAT TO YOUR IMAGINATION

THIS EMOJI IS STRAIGHTFORWARD –
JAPAN AND ITS MORE THAN 6000 ISLANDS.
🗼
🗾
🗻
THE TOKYO TOWER, WHICH HAS SERVED AS THE
LOCATION OF THE GINORMOUS BATTLES
BETWEEN GODZILLA, MOTHRA AND KING KONG.
AND THIS IS MOUNT FUJI, JAPAN’S HIGHEST
MOUNTAIN AT 3,7 KM (12,389 FT) AND ACTUALLY
A SLEEPING VOLCANO.

JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING WHY THIS FIRE TRUCK
– LIKE ALL OTHER EMOJI-VEHICLES – IS SO TINY:
IN JAPAN THEY ARE ACTUALLY SMALLER THAN ELSEWHERE.
🚒
PICTURE TAKEN FROM HTTP://1.BP.BLOGSPOT.COM/_EHO649RSQ0O/SMRP8AOWIYI/AAAAAAAAADK/XOWW9W7IHNQ/S400/DSC_4747.JPG

SOME THINGS
YOU CAN DO
WITH EMOJIS
…YOU PROBABLY
DIDN’T DO BEFORE

YOU CAN
MAKE ART
WITH THEM…
⛅️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️
☁️☁️☁️ 👴☁️☁️☁️
☁️☁️☁️ 👇☁️☁️☁️
☁️☁️☁️ 👆☁️☁️☁️
☁️☁️☁️ 👱☁️☁️☁️
☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️

YOU CAN TELL
A STORY WITH
THEM…
To 🐝, or not to 🐝: that is
the question… To take
💪 against a 🌊of
troubles, and by
opposing to end them?
To 💀, to😴.
Shakespeare's play
Hamlet – Nunnery Scene

YOU CAN BE
THE PRINCE OF
BEL AIR…
Now this is a 📖 all about
how my life got 🔄⬆️⬇️
now I’d like to take a ⌛️
just 💺👈 I’ll tell ya how I
became a 👑 of a 🏠🏡🏠
🏡 called 🔔💨
Will Smith in the Prince of
Bell Air!

…OR SING A
SONG WITH
THEM.
Hey, I just you 🙋
And this is 😱
But here’s my 📲
So 📞 me, maybe?
It’s Carly Rae Jepsen
with Call Me Maybe
It’s hard to 👀 right
At you 👶
But here’s my n
So ☎️ me, maybe?

OR USE THEM
FOR ONLINE
MARKETING
www.emoticoke.com
Coke spreads happiness
online with emoji web
addresses.

THANKS FOR
WATCHING!
IF YOU ENJOYED THAT,
LET ME KNOW AND I’LL
DO MORE ON THIS AND
RELATED TOPICS
This is Philipp, the author of this
presentation.
He’s a marketing student, studied in
Germany, Japan and the US, and an
Entrepreneur.
To ﬁnd out more about him click on
him.

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