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January 17, 2014 Marco | Editor

By Sarah Jacobs

Emoji’s IRL, LOL

Like most of us with iPhones, graphic designer and artist Liza Minnelson loves emojis. She’s currently creating a series of spot-on photographs dedicated to the tiny graphics. The images are bright, bold and quickly gaining a lot of media attention.

On her site she says of them: “They’re completely personal and completely universal. They’re really quite stupid. And they’re the best thing that ever happened… By finding, posing, and sculpting emojis in real life I’ve created a set of shrines to the individual characters. Because somebody had to do it.” This is a great idea executed …read more

Via: Photoshelter

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