Emoji IRL: The Tumblr Turning Texts Into Art

Designer Liza Nelson has a love-hate relationship with emoji, and she isn't the only one

Across the Internet, you can find people who use the little ideograms almost exclusively to express themselves, for better or for worse. So Nelson decided to create a Tumblr called Emoji IRL.LOL..

"Emojis mean everything and they mean nothing at the same time," Nelson wrote on the site. "They're completely personal and completely universal. They're really quite stupid. And they're the best thing that ever happened to our generation." Read more...