Some of the images require a bit of translation, like ingenious, tongue-in-cheek rebuses: Killed Idea is a dead baby, Deadline is a bomb with a clock on it, Working Late is a ball and chain clamped to a swivel chair and Working From Home is just Netflix on a laptop.īut there are plenty of entries for typical agencyspeak. The Gold Lion and the literal Brainstorm will be popular with the brass, and the Dumpster Fire, Shit Sandwich and Train Wreck should get plenty of play in private channels. There's the Hovering Art Director (you know who you are). So to capitalize on World Emoji Day on July 17, Firstborn created the 'SlackTalk emoji pack,' a collection of 22 new Slack emoji that illustrate agency-specific concepts that everyone in adland will recognize. They're faster than typing, easy for Slack to collate and more fun than finding yet another way to say 'I'm on it!'īut Slack power users know there are some common agency phrases that don't have a perfect analog in the emoji catalogue. A big part of that experience is the massive variety of emoji available on the platform-2,823 of them.Ĭheck marks, thumbs up and little red 100s provide brevity and specificity in a tiny, colorful package. It's a rare ad agency that doesn't depend on Slack these days for quick communication among coworkers.

Emoji packs for slack