By Bill Donahue A years-long legal fight over Nirvana‘s iconic smiley face logo could be headed for a major showdown, sparked by a former record label art designer who says he, not Kurt Cobain ...

A complicated years-long three-way lawsuit involving Nirvana‘s famous smiley face logo has now been quietly ... Then Robert Fisher, the former art director from Nirvana’s record label, entered ...

Some believe the logo was a riff on the Seattle strip club, The Lusty Lady, which had a similar resemblance to Nirvana’s “smiley face.” Others say it came from Sub Pop’s first art director ...

A firm managing Nirvana's copyrights has refuted a graphic artist's ownership claim over the grunge band’s famous smiley face logo ... a former art director at Geffen Records, filed ...

After several years, and a few unexpected twists, Nirvana and Marc ... did not know who made the smiley face. And soon an alternate artist, former Geffen Records art director Robert Fisher ...

In the latest twist in Nirvana’s two-year-old copyright and trademark battle with designer Marc Jacobs over the use of the band’s smiley face design ... working as an art director at Geffen ...

He claims that he is the creator of Nirvana’s smiley face logo. According to Billboard, Fisher says that he was working as an art director at Geffern Records when he heard Nirvana were being signed.

The Smiley face—we all know it. The universal yellow and black face with its signature upturned grin, a quintessential pop culture symbol ... the Talking Heads, Nirvana, Acid House, DC Comics ...

EVERYONE KNOWS the ingredients of a smiley face: the egg-yolk circle, the black oblong eyes, the curved grin. It has pervaded pop culture since ... a dark version on Nirvana T-shirts replaced ...

CREDIT: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Nirvana and fashion brand Marc Jacobs have settled a copyright dispute over the band’s infamous smiley face logo ... Geffen Records art director Robert Fisher ...

artist Robert Fisher and the surviving members of rock band Nirvana are settling a lawsuit over the rights to the band's "smiley face" logo, according to a document filed in California federal ...