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Guidance Images, Inter-skintone Couple Emoji

This is a Guidance images. It was graphic design by Aphelandra Messer and project headed by Jennifer 8. Lee and collaborator: Alex Marx, Melissa Thermidor and Tinder Inc. and firm: Emojination. It is dated 2018 and we acquired it in 2020. Its medium is images (computer generated). It is a part of the Digital department.

This object was donated by Emojination. It is credited Gift of Emojination.

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Guidance Images, Inter-skintone Couple Emoji; Graphic design by Aphelandra Messer (American, born 1993); Project headed by Jennifer 8. Lee (American, born 1976); Collaborator: Alex Marx (British, born 1984), Melissa Thermidor (American, born 1982), Tinder Inc.; Firm: Emojination; images (computer generated); Gift of Emojination; 2020-1-2-1/55

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Give Me a Sign: The Language of Symbols.

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