UTW 2025

Session Host

Jennifer Daniel

Jennifer Daniel is an illustrator, author, and designer. As a creative director at Google and former graphics editor at the New York Times, she explores both verbal and written language as a means of personal expression. Her work to standardize globally relevant expressions into the Unicode Standard has resulted in some of the most iconic recent additions including: 🫠🥲🫥️🫡🫣😵‍💫. Acclaimed for her conceptual and clever approach to illustration and writing, her work has been widely published in the New Yorker, Time Magazine, and Wired, to name a few.

Sessions at this workshop:
 Wed, 11:20 Behind the Curtain: The Unicode Technical Committee
 Thu, 11:40 The Shape of Feeling: Designing Emoji for Everyone

 Overview