Creativity. Design Thinking. Open Source. Crowd Built. Passion Project. Integrity. Commitment. Community. Ideals.
I could go on. But it isn't necessary. The work of the Open Moji Project stands strong on its own merit, regardless of my thoughts. It is an impressive body of work.
Open Moji is an open source project by 3 professors and 60 students from the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd University of design in Germany, as well as 20+ external contributors, according to their website.
While most credible emoji sets in the world are built, managed and run by global entities with multimillion dollar annual marketing budgets and agencies/in house graphic professional resources, this group is a small scrappy school of students (led by visionary professors) dedicated to design and design thinking. They are created in alignement with global Unicode standards, and feature on the Unicode site and reputable emoji index's such as Emojpedia. And created to share with the world.
They have created a library under open source principles to give Open Mojis to the world as a basis for sharing their creativity to share and build more creativity.
About the Open Moji Library
- It is open source - free to use under the Creative Commons license
- Houses 4083 emojis (and growing)
- Supports the global Unicode Emoji standard (like all other emojis)
Published Project Intent
These are some of our next generation artists, graphic artists, designers, and thinkers. And I am very thankful for their teachers and mentors and the work that they do. They inspire me.
