The Emoji Fans
A playful ice breaker that enhances our face to face communication.
The Emoji Fan is a portable ice breaker that brings “new facial expressions” we create in the digital world into our physical lives, injecting an element of fun that enhances our face-to-face communication.
The folding fan used to be an important object in social interaction and communication, particularly for relaying secret messages. For example, in Victorian times swiping a fan across the cheek supposedly meant ‘I love you’. Twirling it in your left hand could warn ‘we’re about to get caught! One wrong fan gesture had the potential to send so many mixed messages! But as fans went out of fashion and technology developed, this subtle art of communication faded as we went to more ‘direct’ methods of communicating through emails and texting, and now even that language has been simplified further through the emoji.
Emojis are often more than just copies of real facial expressions. They can sometimes present more subtle meanings and offer a way of expressing emotions that might be difficult to do IRL;-)
