CLIMOJI
ITP alumni Marina Zurkow and Viniyata Pany were recently featured in an article by Sanam Mahoozi in Forbes, Where Are The Emojis We Need To Talk About The Climate Crisis? 🤔 Click here to read the full article, and check out the excerpt below about climoji.org:
"As I continued my search for the right climate emoji, I came across a set of disaster and resilience icons called Climoji that can be downloaded 👈🏻 for free.
The Climoji project was launched out of New York University in 2018 by artists Marina Zurkow and Viniyata Pany who, along with students and faculty members, wanted to make it easier for people to communicate the dangers of climate change.
Illustrations like melting ice caps, sea level rises, plastic pollution and loss of biodiversity are some of the images that Climoji has, and UTC doesn’t.
“We operate similarly to the Unicode emoji set yet I doubt they would ever appear in that official one,” says Zurkow, co-founder of Climoji.org.
“Seven years on since we created Climojis, perhaps that is now part of their strength, that exclusion, like the proverbial elephant in the room,” adds Zurkow.
I believe “they have had a lasting impact because they are simple like the standard emoji, and the most successful Climoji explicitly rides the line between tragedy and comedy,” she adds."