To mark five decades of Smiley, Creative Review commissioned five exclusive artworks to explore how brands can build an emotional connection In 2022, the Smiley brand turns 50. Over that time, the ...

Of the six billion emoji that are sent globally every day, around 70% are emotion based – for example, smiley face, love hearts. A smaller proportion of the emoji sent are sad expressions.

Emoticons then reached world-wide discussion systems such as Usenet - similar to what we would now call an internet forum. An emoticon is a blend of ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’, made up of ...

But they don't teach emoticons in school, and some of them are actually hard to understand — at least for some of us. Below we've listed the actual definitions for all the main emoticons.