by jydesign | Jun 23, 2020 | Blog
Buoymoji Rainbow is our 3rd release of Stickers for Apple iMessage on iOS. It’s available now on the Apple App Store.
This latest addition to our buoy themed emoji series includes whimsical buoys turned maritime emoji characters, with rainbow stripes and a blue-tinted body. They go well with our Basic yellow and Colorways sticker sets. Get them all for maximum variety.
The rainbow theme was inspired, in part, to support Pride Month.
Is it Buoymoji or Buoymojis? Either way, we hope you’ll have fun with this reimagining of classic emojis as traditional lobster buoys.
Take pride in adding a splash of rainbow and personality to your iMessage chats. Designed near the ocean in a seacoast suburb of Boston, MA.
A collaboration between James Young and Tim Walling
by jydesign | Oct 14, 2019 | Blog
Buoymoji Colorways is our 2nd release of Stickers for Apple iMessage on iOS.
It’s available now on the Apple App Store.
This latest in the series is an expanded set that features emoji in three different colors (green, white, pink) plus a few extras.
The mariners phrase goes “Red, Right, Returning” and that’s why we arranged this latest set of stickers the way we did.
Is it Buoymoji or Buoymojis? Either way, we hope you’ll have fun with this reimagining of classic emojis as traditional lobster buoys.
Add these bobbing characters to your messaging homeport today. Designed near the ocean in a seacoast suburb of Boston, MA.
A collaboration between James Young and Tim Walling
by jydesign | Sep 12, 2019 | Blog
Excited to announce that you can now download our Buoymoji Basic free sticker set on the Apple App Store for iMessage.
Add some seafaring flair to your conversations with Buoymoji! Check out our pack of 80+ buoys turned emoji for messages. Designed near the ocean in a seacoast suburb of Boston, MA.
Is it Buoymoji or Buoymojis? Either way, we hope you’ll have fun with this reimagining of classic emojis as traditional lobster buoys.
A collaboration between James Young and Tim Walling
by jydesign | Feb 24, 2019 | Blog
Big 2019 update: Buoymoji stickers are live on the App Store! Also see the Buoymoji product page for details.
Backstory
This is a quick story about a side-project I started messing around with back in November of 2016.
I had a few motivations for working on this in my spare time:
- I wanted to do something with design software that was purely creative and unrelated to the business projects I was contributing to
- I grew up in the North East and I’m a sucker for nautical stuff and I often use buoy images and seafaring characters in my personal ‘fine art’ and illustration
- At the time I was looking for interesting ways to leverage Sketch symbols for illustrated characters, other designers like Pablo Stanley have explored similar ideas and he really hit it out of the park with his initial release of Aavataaars
My thinking at the time was to create some alternatives to standard emojis. The challenge offered a simple set of constraints – to try and reimagine just the subset of “Smileys” with a buoy theme (a “Buoymoji” play on words).
I did learn a lot about options for using symbols so that I could quickly swap and share common elements like sets of eyes, and even how to set the base buoy shape so that I could very quickly create sets that could be different colorways (ex. yellow, blue, pink, white, green buoy families). I even went and grabbed the domain buoymojis.com and still have that.
It was also a good opportunity to learn about the other types of assets needed to post Sticker packs, like an ‘app banner’ shown above.
I experimented with referencing contemporary events in the the icon set. For example, Snap had recently come out with their first version of Spectacles so I have the sunglasses emoji wearing them. Overall it was a fun project that I may consider picking back up at some point. Thanks for looking, “Fair winds and following seas”!
