project details ─

The post-millennial grew up with quick access to technology and fast communication. With 3,109 emojis (as of 2019) to choose from, one can express themselves fairly accurately using just emojis. In this current day, it's easy to figure out others' personalities and quirks based off of their emoji usage. Even more interestingly, the interpretations of each emoji may vary from person to person. Thus, Self-Emoji was created as a modern take on the self-portrait using the pictoral language of the twenty-first century.

Out of my most used emojis and the emojis that best describe me, I took 35 of those emojis and made them into single-color, vector line drawings. Each one was created on Adobe Illustrator, with the restriction of only using vector shapes and the manipulation of anchor points (NO pen tool allowed). The project was meant to pose a challenge to render an image through already established forms. To finish it off, I labeled each emoji with what I interpret them to mean.