It all started with Drake. As a surprise, I wanted to create a real what-if-Apple-made-it emoji of 6 God for my colleague Ole Martin. This made me wonder: what would our own emoji look like? I got excited about the possibilities: we could use them in Slack, create a big poster with all our emoji to hang in each office, or print them on mugs!

I had never done anything like this and I didn’t know where to start or how to approach this. I opted for a systematic approach and divided my process in steps. I’ll take you through it and provide some tips so you can try it yourself.