Diamojis in the Wild

This post is a living gallery — I'll keep adding examples here as new work comes out of the studio. Bookmark it if you want to watch the artform grow.

Each piece below shows a different subject, style, or configuration. All of them share the same foundation: thousands of tiny emojis, placed by an algorithm I designed, resolving into something you recognize only when you step back.

You can zoom into each of these diamoji to get a feel for what they are like in real life. Seeing them first hand is the best way to experience them. These images are a lower resolution than when they are printed, so there will be some blurring at higher zoom levels.

The piece that started everything publicly. The Emoji Lisa uses 6873 tiles and 762 unique emoji in various sizes and rotations. It's a portrait of a portrait — which felt right.

The hardest project yet with 34,189 tiles. Every Diamoji project teaches me something new. Starry Night required three new tools that didn't exist before I started.

The longest project yet. It took 53 iterations over 9 days resulting in 18,159 tiles and several new software features and tools.

Seurat built A Sunday on La Grande Jatte from 3.5 million dots of pure color. This one took 14,691 emoji — 1,748 unique symbols, chosen tile by tile for color, edge, and form.

Birth of Emoji is built from 24,088 tiles drawing on 986 unique emoji. It required 31 artist regions — more than any Diamoji to date — and introduced full color calibration to the process for the first time.

Pet portraits have a unique challenge with the soft edges. This diamoji has 6526 tiles, 1088 unique emoji and took 9.5 minutes to render

This is a photo portrait example. This diamoji has 8059 tiles, 1067 unique emoji and took 8.4 minutes to render.