Smithsonian Design Museum acquires two emoji that symbolize inclusion
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This combination of images released by The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum shows an emoji depicting a girl in a headscarf, left, and a collection of inter-skintone couples which have been added to the museum s digital collection to celebrate inclusion. (Emojination/Cooper Hewitt via AP)
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NEW YORK (AP) â The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has acquired two emoji that have helped broaden diversity for users of the tiny pictures.
It becomes the third museum to add emoji to their digital collections.
The New York museum acquired the âperson with headscarfâ and âinter-skintone coupleâ emoji for its burgeoning collection of digital assets.
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This combination of images released by The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum shows an emoji depicting a girl in a headscarf (left) and a collection of inter-skintone couples which have been added to the museum’s digital collection to celebrate inclusion. Emojination/Cooper Hewitt via AP
NEW YORK: The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has acquired two emoji that have helped broaden diversity for users of the tiny pictures, becoming the third museum to add emoji to their digital collections.
The New York museum acquired the “person with headscarf” and “inter-skintone couple” emoji for its burgeoning collection of digital assets. The museum plans an exhibition on the significance of the two through interviews and images, but the pandemic has put an opening date in limbo, said Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt’s associate curator of contemporary design.
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Emojis have officially solidified their place in history.
Emojination, a group that advocates for more inclusive and representative emojis, announced on Thursday that its interracial couple emojis and hijab emoji have been acquired by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, as a part of their expanding digital collection.
The famous (and now, historical) emojis were made thanks to Tinder’s petition to create emojis that better reflected its real-life couples back in 2017. The petition earned 52,000 signatures over the course of a year. The set of emojis, designed by Katrina Parrott, officially became available to mobile devices in 2019. The hijab emoji (also called “person with a scarf”) was submitted to the Unicode Consortium in 2016 and was created by Rayouf Alhumedhi.