Jennifer Daniel (illustrator)
Jennifer Daniel | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Illustration |
Jennifer Daniel is an American artist, designer and art director. She is the chair of the Emoji Standard and Research Working Group (ESC / ESR) for The Unicode Consortium and has worked for The New York Times and The New Yorker.[1][2][3]
Life and career
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.
Unicode and emoji work
Daniel’s first contribution to Unicode Standard was standardizing gender inclusive representations in emoji.[10][11] She created the Mx 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
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Unicode Consortium Announces New Additions to Leadership Team". Archived from the original on September 22, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ "Jennifer Daniel - Emoji Subcommittee Chair at Unicode Consortium". THE ORG. Archived from the original on October 17, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Imposter Syndrome with Jennifer Daniel". www.superhi.com.
- ^ "Jennifer Daniel's Sketchbook". March 20, 2014. Archived from the original on February 12, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "The Pencil Factory: An Oral History". PRINT. January 15, 2013. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ The Art Directors Annual 90. The Art Directors Club. December 2011. p. 393. ISBN 978-2-940411-88-7. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Haskins, Caroline. "Perfecting the language of emojis". The Outline. Archived from the original on April 6, 2020. Retrieved October 17, 2020.
- ^ Consortium, Unicode (September 13, 2022). "Unicode Proposals".