Where Is the Dumpling Emoji?

A project in Los Angeles, CA by Emojination
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We want to bring the dumpling emoji to life and pave the way for a more inclusive catalog of emojis.
Backers: 318
Average Pledge Per Backer: $39

Funded: $12,478 of $3,750
Dates: Dec 16th -> Feb 12th (58 days)
Project By: Emojination
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Latest News

Happy Year of the Dumpling! We Did It!

February 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Happy Lunar New Year! An excellent time to eat dumplings.  We did it!  We presented our emoji proposals on January 25, 2016 to the Unicode Technical Committee. So DUMPLING emoji became an official candidate emoji (along with CHOPSTICKS, FORTUNE... (Read More)

We may get an official dumpling emoji thanks to a Kickstarter campaign

February 8th - via: theverge.com
Late last year, a Kickstarter campaign raised $11,000 to make the case that there should be an official dumpling emoji. And next year, it sounds like we may just get one. (Read More)

We're going to present the Dumpling Emoji to the Unicode Consortium next week!

January 21st - via: kickstarter.com
Great news! Our dumpling emoji — and chopsticks and fortune cookie and Chinese takeout box — passed out of the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee. So we will be up for consideration next week at the Unicode Technical Committee quarterly meeting in San... (Read More)

Dumpling Emoji on NPR! And our Tribute to David Bowie: an Emoji

January 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Dumpling emoji is almost at $10,000! Help spread the word so we can break that five-digit level. We had an exciting week with our debut on NPR through a short segment on PRI's The World. Here is their longer podcast about our quest for emoji. There... (Read More)

We're an Awesome Without Borders Grantee! And another important update

January 6th - via: kickstarter.com
We're excited to announce we are the first Awesome Without Borders grantee for 2016. This was the original grant that put us over the top in our Kickstarter only 50 hours in! Led by Ruth Ann Harnisch, Awesome Without Borders is one of the most fun... (Read More)

Happy 2016! Introducing the Emojination Logo

January 1st - via: kickstarter.com
What a wonderful few days it has been. We want to welcome all our new backers. We broke $7,000 and are almost at twice our original goal. This comes in large part because of Kickstarter love. This week Dumpling Emoji was Kickstarter's Project of the... (Read More)

How Jennifer Lee's Kickstarter to create dumpling emoji turned into something bigger

December 30th - via: metro.co.uk
In our battle for a greater range of tiny pictures to express our truest feelings, there may have been one little food item we overlooked - the dumpling (Read More)

Dumpling Emoji in the News!

December 21st - via: kickstarter.com
We've had a lovely few days of press around the dumpling emoji and Emojination (which brought many additional backers). On Friday, we were on the BBC (our radio debut!). Then on Sunday, Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel released a detailed article, looking... (Read More)

Whoa! We hit our dumpling goal in ONLY 50 hours!

December 18th - via: kickstarter.com
We just hit our goal a few minutes ago with a big dose of dumpling generosity.  This was so unexpected to do hit our goal so quickly (only two days!). Thank you so much for your love of dumplings and emoji! This gets us our first year of Unicode... (Read More)

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