Here’s my breakdown of all the measurable things that I said I’d like to do last year, and what’s happened to those since then.
Category: Thoughts
0.4.0 sketches and thoughts – new emoji
In the previous post, I talk about the aesthetic approaches that have developed in this version, and the ways I have intentionally tried to create a new cohesive vision of how to design Mutant Standard emoji. In this post, I’m going to go through the new emoji designs like I normally do with these posts!… Continue reading 0.4.0 sketches and thoughts – new emoji
0.4.0 sketches and thoughts – aesthetic
In this post, I’m going to go over the variety of realisations I’ve made in my design process that have led to the various significant improvements that were made in 0.4.0.
0.3.1 sketches and thoughts
Here’s my sketches for 0.3.1! In general, looking back, I feel like a lot of what I did here was continue the new thinking that was started in 0.3.0, but was constrained with the design system baggage of earlier versions, and I feel that a good few of these just don’t reach their potential as… Continue reading 0.3.1 sketches and thoughts
Cooption thoughts
This is a backburner thought, but I’ve contemplated shaping Mutant Standard’s encoding standard over the long term to somehow prevent easy use (and thus cooption) by corporate entities.
Police and Border Patrol emoji – The Mutant Standard view
Continuing with my tradition of making blog posts about why certain emoji that are in the Unicode Standard are not and will never be in Mutant Standard, I have decided to talk about the very first few emoji I decided to exclude – police and border patrol. With police, I’m mainly bullet pointing this because… Continue reading Police and Border Patrol emoji – The Mutant Standard view
Permanence, negligence, IDK
CW: the generic state of world politics, violence, a degree of pessimism.
Why Unicode emoji isn’t (and shouldn’t be) a reliable communication mechanism
I often hear a particular undercurrent of attitudes or beliefs when I hear various discussions about Unicode codepoints and Unicode emoji symbols, and to me, as an illustrator and a designer (ie. a visual communicator), and someone who is trying to navigate their place in the world of languages, I find that these attitudes usually… Continue reading Why Unicode emoji isn’t (and shouldn’t be) a reliable communication mechanism
Things I’ve thought about for the near future
Here are a couple of outcomes from me thinking about stuff the past week or so…
Housekeeping
Hey, I’m going to break away from normal emoji release schedule for a short while to do a few things that need to be done, both with the project and personally. I also need to think about how I can approach this project in a way that will make the production of certain emoji easier… Continue reading Housekeeping