Jennifer Daniel is an American artist, designer and art director. She is the chair of the

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Standard and Research Working Group (ESC / ESR) for

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and has worked for ''

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'' and ''

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''.

Life and career

Daniel grew up in

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. Since she was a teenager, Daniel has chronicled her life in sketchbook form documenting quotable moments with her family alongside grid drawings. She graduated from the

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and then worked at the ''New York Times''. She later taught creative writing at the

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. From September 2009 to July 2011, she worked in a studio space at the Pencil Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. In 2015, her first children's book ''Space!'' was published. Two more books followed: ''The Origin of (Almost) Everything'' (2016) which included an introduction from

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. Later, ''How to Be Human'' (2017) was published. Daniel is a member of the Art Director's Club. Her work has been recognized by the

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Unicode and emoji work

Daniel’s first contribution to Unicode Standard was standardizing gender inclusive representations in emoji. She created the Mx Claus, Woman in Tuxedo, Man in Veil and 30 other gender-inclusive emoji. In addition to her work for the Unicode Consortium, Daniel serves as the Expressions Creative Director for

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and

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. Daniel has authored and co-authored over two dozen emoji including: 🫠🥲🫢🫣🫡🫥😶‍🌫️😮‍💨🫨🙂‍↔️🙂‍↕️😵‍💫🫤🥹❤️‍🔥❤️‍🩹🩷🩵🩶🫱🫲🫰🫱🏿‍🫲🏻🫦🧔‍♂️🧔‍♀️🧑‍🦰🧑‍⚕️🥷🫅🤵‍♂️🤵‍♀️👰‍♂️👰‍♀️🫄🧑‍🍼🧑‍🎄🧑‍🦯💑🏿🫂🪽🐦‍🔥🪷🪻🍄‍🟫🫗🪮🪫⛓️‍💥🫧⚧️

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daniel, Jennifer Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American illustrators American women illustrators Artists from Kansas People involved with Unicode American designers American art directors The New York Times people The New Yorker people Maryland Institute College of Art alumni School of Visual Arts faculty