Jennifer Daniel (illustrator)

Jennifer Daniel
NationalityAmerican
Known forIllustration

Jennifer Daniel is an American artist, designer and art director. She leads the Emoji Subcommittee for The Unicode Consortium and has worked for The New York Times and The New Yorker.[1][2][3]

Life and career[edit]

Daniel grew up in Kansas.[4] Since she was a teenager, Daniel has chronicled her life in sketchbook form documenting quotable moments with her family alongside grid drawings.[5] She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art[4] and then worked at the New York Times.[4] She later taught creative writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.[6] From September 2009 to July 2011, she worked in a studio space at the Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.[7]

In 2015, her first children's book Space! was published. Two more books followed: The Origin of (Almost) Everything (2016)[8] which included an introduction from Stephen Hawking. Later, How to Be Human (2017) was published.

Daniel is a member of the Art Director's Club.[9] Her work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators.[citation needed]

Unicode and emoji work[edit]

Daniel’s first contribution to Unicode Standard was standardizing gender inclusive representations in emoji.[10][11] She created the Mrs Claus, Woman in Tuxedo, Man in Veil and 30 other gender-inclusive emoji.[12] In addition to her work for the Unicode Consortium, Daniel serves as the Expressions Creative Director for Android and Google.[13][14]

Daniel has authored and co-authored over two dozen emoji including: 🥲🥹🫡🫢🫣🫤🫥🫠😮‍💨😶‍🌫️😵‍💫🫧❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹🫂🫦🫱🫲🫰🫱🏿‍🫲🏻🫅🧑‍🍼🫄🫗🪫[15]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The past, present and future of the emoji, according to Google's Jennifer Daniel". www.itsnicethat.com. Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  2. ^ "Unicode Consortium Announces New Additions to Leadership Team". Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  3. ^ "Jennifer Daniel - Emoji Subcommittee Chair at Unicode Consortium". THE ORG. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c "Imposter Syndrome with Jennifer Daniel". www.superhi.com.
  5. ^ "Jennifer Daniel's Sketchbook". March 20, 2014.
  6. ^ "Welcome to the Visual Narrative MFA at School of Visual Arts". MFAVN - The School of Visual Arts. December 15, 2014. Archived from the original on April 5, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  7. ^ "The Pencil Factory: An Oral History". PRINT. January 15, 2013. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  8. ^ Miller, Meg (December 8, 2016). "The "Bart And Lisa" Theory Of Information Design". Fast Company. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  9. ^ The Art Directors Annual 90. The Art Directors Club. December 2011. p. 393. ISBN 978-2-940411-88-7. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  10. ^ Wilson, Mark (May 7, 2019). "Exclusive: Google releases 53 gender fluid emoji". Fast Company. Archived from the original on August 18, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  11. ^ Piñon, Natasha (May 14, 2020). "The designer behind Unicode's first gender-inclusive emoji talks about what's next". Mashable. Archived from the original on August 25, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  12. ^ Assunção, Muri (January 30, 2020). "Transgender flag, woman in tuxedo, and a gender-inclusive Santa Claus are among 117 new emojis approved for 2020 release". nydailynews.com. Archived from the original on January 31, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  13. ^ D'Onfro, Jillian (July 7, 2018). "Meet the woman who decides what Google's emoji look like". CNBC. Archived from the original on March 31, 2019. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  14. ^ Haskins, Caroline. "Perfecting the language of emojis". The Outline. Archived from the original on April 6, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
  15. ^ Consortium, Unicode (September 13, 2022). "Unicode Proposals".

External links[edit]

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