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Climoji

2017

Emoji collection, available as downloadable images, icon set, instagram filter

In collaboration with Viniyata Pany
Disaster icons illustrated by >Manuja Waldia
Resilience icons illustrated by Anna Lin
iOS & Android app developed by Johann Diedrick & >Denny George
Thanks to Richard Farren Lapham

Supported by NYU Green Grants, in collaboration with NYU Office of Sustainability.

https://www.climoji.org/

The Climoji are designed to distill some of the causes and effects of climate change into tiny, potent icons.

2002

Printed acetate lightbox graphics

What happens between the apprehension of a sign, and the moment in which, through a linguistic reading, it becomes legible? This series of pictograms attempts to create poetic “short-circuits” by piggybacking on cliche and similitude. The point of meaning (if you can call it that) occurs in an extra-linguistic zone, yet depends wholly on both…