Jennifer Daniel (designer)
Jennifer Daniel (b. 1982) is a visual journalist, author, and designer.
Since 2004, Daniel is a visual journalist known for her work in The New York Times and The New Yorker and her provocative lectures including Design is Capitalism, Stop Designing Everything: The Designification of Motherhood, and The Problem with Liberal White Designers. In 2020 Daniel became the Unicode Technical Committee Chair for the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee.
Personal Life[edit]
She studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art under Ellen Lupton and Whitney Sherman [1].
After finishing her studies in Baltimore, she moved to New York City. After 13 years in New York City, she moved to California.
Unicode[edit]
Daniel is the Unicode Technical Committee Chair[2] for the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee which is responsible for making recommendations relating to emoji to the Unicode Technical Committee.
Described as a leading authority on emoji use[3], Daniel generated support from Apple, Microsoft, Twitter, and Samsung to modify existing emoji designs so they relied less on gender signifiers[4][5][6]. Her documentation also introduced the first gender-nonconforming emoji like Woman in Tuxedo, Man in Veil, and Mx. Claus.[7][8]
Proposals for two people hugging , a smile for single tear , and the first emoji depicting child-care with a man were added to the Unicode Standard in 2020[9] after a formal proposal authored by Daniel was approved.[10] Daniel is also cited as a co-author of the proposal for a Transgender Flag emoji[11] alongside Bianca Rey, Tea Uglow, and Monica Helms.
Her favorite emoji is a bigram: 🎷🤠 [12]
Career[edit]
While attending art school Daniel spent her summers studying under Christoph Nieman and Nicholas Blechman in their studio in Chinatown, then the Meatpacking District in Manhattan.[13] After graduation, Daniel moved to New York to work for The New York Times.[13]. She spent her early career sharing a studio space in The Pencil Factory[14]. Daniel's work was recognized by the Young Gun award of the Art Directors Club of New York and Print Magazine's 20 Under 30 Visual Designers[15].
In 2009, Daniel became the Graphics Director at Bloomberg Businessweek where the publication went on to win a number of awards including ADC's Gold Cube[16], One Club's Golden Pencil[17], induction into the Walker Art Museum and dubbed "Magazine of the Decade" by MagCulture[18]. For a brief period of time Daniel taught creative writing[19] at the New York City School of Visual Arts. She currently works as a Creative Director at Google[3][20].
Daniel is the Design Manager of the Expression design team at Google, overseeing creative direction across stickers, gifs, emojis and camera effects[21]. Her work designing machine learning generated selfie stickers in Google Allo was recognized by Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards. Emoji Kitchen, a feature available in Google's keyboard mixes and matches emoji to create new designs.[22]
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine and American Illustration, and has won awards from AIGA, the Art Directors Club, Society of News Design, and American Illustration.
Her publications The Origin of (Almost) Everything and Space! which explore scientific topics in in diagram form.
Bibliography[edit]
- How to Be Human, John Murray
- The Origin of (almost) Everything, John Murray
- Pattern Sketchbook, Chronicle Books, by Shayna Kulik, Chronicle Books
- How Think Like a Great Graphic Designer, by Steven Heller and Gail Anderson
- Raw Data, by Steven Heller and Rick Landers
- Designing Information, Human Factors and Common Sense in Information Design, by Joel Katz
- Space, Templar Publishing
- Infographics, Gestalten
- Best American Infographics, Volume 1
- Designing News, Gestalten, Edited by Francesco Franchi
- Best American Infographics, introduction by David Byrne
- The Where, the Why, and the How, Chronicle Books
- 365: Year in Design, by American Institute of Graphic Arts
Exhibitions[edit]
Her work has been exhibited around the world including at the Grand Palais in Paris[23], at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and at the Society of Illustrators in New York.
Public Speaking[edit]
Women Talk Design notes that Daniel lectures globally including notable appearances at Hall of Femmes in Amsterdam, Typographics at Cooper Union in New York City, at Syracuse University, Eyeo at the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis.
See also[edit]
Mark Davis, co-founder of Unicode
Steve Duenes, deputy managing editor at the New York Times
Gretchen McCulloch, Canadian Internet Linguist
References[edit]
- ↑ Lui, Claire (2009-06-20). "Jennifer Daniel". Print Magazine. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ↑ "Unicode Directors, Officers, and Staff". unicode.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Wollan, Malia (2019-03-19). "How to Use Emojis". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ "Unicode Brings Forward Gender Neutral Timeline". Emojipedia. 2019-10-09. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ↑ "Google's Three Gender Emoji Future". Emojipedia. 2019-03-13. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ↑ D'Onfro, Jillian (2018-07-07). "Meet the woman who decides what Google's emoji look like". CNBC. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ Daniel, Jennifer. "Using Gender Inclusive Designs For existing code points which do not specify gender" (PDF). Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Daniel, Jennifer (Unicode.org). "Recommendations for Gendered Emoji ZWJ Sequences for Unicode 13.0" (PDF). Unicode.org. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help); Check date values in:|date=(help) - ↑ "Emoji Recently Added, v13.0". Unicode. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The past, present and future of the emoji, according to Google's Jennifer Daniel". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ https://unicode.org/L2/L2019/19080-transgender-flag.pdf
- ↑ "Emo-gee, that's a cool job. Meet the woman who designs Google's emoji". Google. 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Imposter Syndrome with Jennifer Daniel". www.superhi.com. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ↑ Walker, Rob (2013-01-15). "The Pencil Factory: An Oral History". Print Magazine. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ "CHRISTOPH NIEMANN, NICHOLAS BLECHMAN & JENNIFER DANIEL TALK ABOUT POST ILLUSTRATION". Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ "Minimal Wave Records | Articles | ADC's 90th Annual Awards After-Party May 11th, NYC". minimalwave.com. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ "The One Club / ADC Annual Awards - Archive of Past Winners". www.oneclub.org. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ "The Magazine of the Decade". magCulture. 2020-01-01. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ "Welcome to the Visual Narrative MFA at School of Visual Arts". MFAVN - The School of Visual Arts. 2014-12-15. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
- ↑ Haskins, Caroline. "Perfecting the language of emojis". The Outline. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ How We Write, Taylor & Francis, 1999, doi:10.4324/9780203272732_chapter_9, ISBN 978-0-203-27273-2 Missing or empty
|title=(help);|chapter=ignored (help) - ↑ "Feeling all the feels? There's an emoji sticker for that". Google. 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ↑ "Ve'lib x Paris by ARTCRANK". urbancycling.it (in italiano). 2013-07-02. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
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