‘Fail Whale’ Designer Yiying Lu Explains How She Designed and Certified the Official Dumpling Emoji
Yiying Lu, the talented designer behind the famous piece "Lifting A Dreamer" aka "Twitter Fail Whale", who was just named one of the Most Creative People in Business 2018 and is a very good friend of Laughing Squid, gave an amusing talk to a San Francisco Ignite audience about how she went about creating the official dumpling emoji. The affable designer spoke about how she got the idea for the emoji, the process by which she needed to get the emoji officially certified through The Unicode Consortium, the hiccups she encountered along the way and the release of the final design.
How could there not be a dumpling emoji? After learning that this much-loved food did not have an emoji, Yiying Lu decided to create one and ask Unicode Consortium for their blessing in making the emoji official. She takes us on a journey through how much thought goes into the creation of an image, detailing how international contributions impacted the final emoji set that she created.
#UTC146 Peter Edberg accepts #dumpling #chopsticks #fortunecookie #takeoutbox originals from emoji designer YiyingLu pic.twitter.com/FB6QgK39H0
- Alolita Sharma? (@alolita) January 25, 2016
DUMPLING, TAKEOUT BOX, FORTUNE COOKIE & CHOPSTICKS are official emoji candidates in 2016! https://t.co/NKEfbE4wlr pic.twitter.com/PL1dlh6zR9
- Yiying Lu ??? (@YiyingLu) February 9, 2016
I am honored and delighted to be among @FastCompany's 2018 Most Creative People with @jenny8lee #FCMostCreative https://t.co/SGwD6HvQrQ
- Yiying Lu ??? (@YiyingLu) May 30, 2018
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