Smartphone users are no doubt familiar with emoji – those little smiley faces or other images you can text to your friends. Well, a Houston marketing and design firm called Primer Grey has started creating Houston-themed emoji – dubbed Houmoji – to represent people, places and experiences in the Bayou City.
- Houston Traffic (Photo Credit: Images Courtesy: Primer Grey)
- Shipleys (Photo Credit: Images Courtesy: Primer Grey)
- James Harden (Photo Credit: Images Courtesy: Primer Grey)
- Montrose rollerblader (Photo Credit: Images Courtesy: Primer Grey)
- Kam Franklin (Photo Credit: Images Courtesy: Primer Grey)
- James Turrell (Photo Credit: Images Courtesy: Primer Grey)
To learn more about the project, Michael Hagerty talked with the company's Hannah McClure and Chris Valdez.
McClure is an illustrator who's new to Houston from Louisiana. She says she was sketching landmarks around town as she learned her new city. But the idea really took off when she sketched an image of Houston's most famous native — Beyoncé.
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