Emoticons are that part of the Internet we make fun of tweens for using, but mockery quickly turns into imitation, and next thing you know you’re trading text messages with your girlfriend by giving her a kiss :*. Until you see a book of typeface focusing solely on emoticons, you won’t understand how attractive emoticons can be. Designer Allison Wilton just finished her BFA with a thesis project that takes sixteen hand crafted art books and explores the born digitals with “aspects of the World Wide Web that bombard society daily.
