Degree Type
Honors Capstone Project
Date of Submission
Spring 5-1-2019
Capstone Advisor
Gregory Corso
Honors Reader
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Capstone Major
Architecture
Capstone College
Architecture
Audio/Visual Component
yes
Audio/Visual Location
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1eC3SwOMeORaUI-kczqpchE_GScQ4IGgW
Capstone Prize Winner
no
Won Capstone Funding
yes
Honors Categories
Creative
Subject Categories
Architecture | Communication | Communication Technology and New Media
Abstract
The rise of digital communication has intertwined visual and textual information. As language continually updates to include pictograms, there is potential to update the language of architecture using these visual icons. Emojis are finding their way into our day-to-day vocabulary. In 2015, the word of the year, selected by Oxford Dictionaries, was the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji. These amicable emoticons tap into the architectural conversations from Learning from Las Vegas of the duck (symbol) and the decorated shed (signage) and themes of iconography as in Somol’s Green Dots 101. As emojis are not grounded in a specific verbal language and based on a visual interpretation of things, they become universally understood. Designing architecture based on the universal language of emojis creates forms with meanings which are accessible to those outside of the architectural profession
Recommended Citation
Miller, Doria, "Emoji Disorder: Using a Universal Digital Dialect to Enhance Architectural Communication" (2019). Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All. 1308.
https://surface.syr.edu/honors_capstone/1308
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