When Words Are Not Enough 🙉 Plus, could your pooch be the next emoji?

My humans communicate with their friends via text more than they talk to each other.

Not only that, sometimes, when they're both at home in different rooms, they text each other!

Why would you send a text instead of barreling down the hallway, doing some zoomies in the loungeroom, and flying into the other person's lap to stare at them and speak face-to-face?

Not only do they text incessantly, but they also use emojis as often as I turn on my puppy dog eyes—A LOT!

They say a picture can speak louder than words, so I guess using emojis makes sense.

Of course, this made me wonder what a message thread between humans and Mother Earth would look like.

How would Mother Earth reply if humans texted her asking how she was doing today?

THE DIRT WORTH ROLLING IN... 

• 🎨 Reimagining modern-day logos {link}  
• 🪳 Who will survive climate change? {link}
• 💩 For the love of poo {link}

ANDRE HUNTS DOWN THE ANSWERS TO YOUR QUESTIONS

'Andre, my pooch Pilu is a bundle of funniness and character. I'd love his antics to be captured as an emoji so people worldwide could use it to express themselves.  How would I go about it?' 

This question is a little outside the kennel! But I like it.

Shigetaka Kurita created the first emojis in 1999, but he had to create them within a grid measuring 12 by 12 pixels.

This is to say, the pixelated emojis back then were not quite like the emojis of today.

Anyway, these days, emojis have a gatekeeper called the Unicode Consortium – sounds rather formal, doesn’t it?

The public can propose their emoji designs to the consortium for consideration, but you must be prepared to give your emoji a tail-dancing sales pitch.

There are guidelines and a submission process.

You’ll need to prove your emoji's value to the world and convey its potential contribution to people, language, and communication.

Good luck with your furry endeavour!  

HUMANS WHO PLAY NICE WITH THE PLANET®

Super Local was founded in 2012 by Dutch designers Pim Van Baarsen and Luc Van Hoeckel.

They rejected the traditional path of making more products that people don't really need, made with new materials and targeted for consumption by only 10% of the world's population who could afford them.

Instead, they chose to focus on solving real-world issues at the local level, concentrating their efforts, skills, and creativity on breathing new life into existing materials to help the remaining 90% of the world.

Now that is worthy of a 🥇

That's all for this month.  I'm headed down the hallway to partake in zoomies!

See you next time.

Howling out,
Andre

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