Ball took all of 10 minutes to draw the yellow smiley face, and the State Mutual Life Assurance Company paid him $45. State Mutual then made posters, buttons and signs with the image to get their ...

(Nordstrom ) Smiley is 50, and Nordstom has decided (just as face masks are dropping off ... expressions to convey more emotions. The smiling yellow face has an earlier history without a legal ...

As a portrait artist, all I can do now is reconstruct the mysteries of who you are under the mask. By Riva Lehrer Ms. Lehrer is a visual artist and writer. Today’s sightings: red paisley mask ...

The Mona Lisa might have the most iconic smile in history, but one could argue the yellow smiley face comes pretty close. What began as an unusual assignment for graphic designer Harvey Ball ...

The day comes from the artist behind the iconic yellow smiley face, who decided we needed a day to celebrate smiles. In 1963, an artist called Harvey Ball in the USA created a big yellow smiley face.

Nirvana has been in court for years over the famous drawing – a yellow smiley face with X’d-out eyes that first appeared during promotion for 1991’s Nevermind. The design eventually became ...