□ East & West: Creative process behind the localization campaign for a global company, The Walt Disney Company, in its new market, China, which successfully recruited 100,000 new employees for its opening in Shanghai Disney Resort. □ Tech & Art: Creative journey of creating the Dumpling □, Boba Tea □, Takeout Box □, Fortune Cookie □, Chopsticks □, and the Peacock □ emojis, used by billions of people. □ Function & Fun: Story about being the artist of the “ Twitter Fail Whale,” and Web 2.0 icon seen by millions, and my discovery of the cross-cultural redefinition and a new mindset about “Fail,” which enables us to look beyond the conventional meaning of failure, encourage us to create something new. I shared my experiences and designed case studies in the past ten years, and used bridges as a metaphor to bridge the gap between: □□✨ How can we create business and cultural value in a global career involving innovation, art, business, and technology? I am thankful to bring my presentation, "Bridging the World through Cross-Cultural Creativity & Innovation", to students, staff, and alumni at University of Technology Sydney last month during the SXSW Sydney festival. #food #culture #emoji #design #Venezuela #arepa #boba #creativity #art #diversity #sanfrancisco #sf #creative Lumen pointed at one quote on the Wall of this Arepa restaurant: “La vida es como la arepa sabe a lo que uno le ponga.” which translates to: “Life is like the arepa it knows what you put into it.” ✨□✨ We both were amazed at how much our lives have intersected through art and ctechnology over the last 12 years ✨. We also discovered the incredible similarity between Venezuelan & Chinese holiday dumplings: “Hallacas” & “ZongZi” □□Īs it turns out, Lumen has been a designer at Airbnb for 6 years! I shared with her the receipt of my first Airbnb stay in San Francisco it happened to be the first Airbnb home where its co-founders Brian & Joe started this company. We shared our creative journeys as immigrants, women & designers our love for food & emoji and our passion for creating belonging through Design. It was so special that Lumen and I finally met in person yesterday after all these years. Then I realized we had already connected through Twitter in 2011 - as Lumen tweeted a collection of unique shoe designs inspired by social media networks, including one inspired by my Twitter Whale □ art - small world! I only learned about Lumen's story after I listened to the podcast. The interview was recorded separately in 2020, since we lived in different places during the pandemic. You can listen our podcast story from here: I was in San Francisco, and talked about the creative process behind the dumpling □ & boba tea □ emojis, why Unicode initially rejected the boba emoji, and how my fellow Super Boba team - 3 amazing data scientists Ranjitha Kumar, Timothy Deng & Sujay Khandekar resurrected the proposal by adding the important ingredient to make the boba tea emoji pass: Data □. They talked about their journey of creating the Arepa Emoji and belonging. Emily Thomas, interviewed us from London, while Lumen was in Miami and her arepa □ emoji co-creator Sebastian Delmont, was in New York. Three years ago, Lumen and I reconnected virtually during the pandemic through “The Power of Food Emoji” podcast on BBC Food Chain, a story on the arepa □ & boba tea□emojis (the only two new food emojis released in 2020). I had my first-ever arepa, and it was SO delicious □! □□❤️ Union: So happy to finally meet Lumen Bigott, the lovely designer of the arepa □ (flatbread) emoji - an iconic cuisine from Venezuela □□ & Colombia □□ also popular in Bolivia □□, Ecuador □□, Nicaragua □□, and Panama □□.Īlthough Lumen and I connected virtually 12 years ago via Twitter, this was our first meeting in person! We went to the Arepas Latin Cuisine restaurant in the Mission, San Francisco, and shared an actual arepa □, cheese empanadas □□, and boba tea □□ together ❤️.
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