Smiley Ball and Smiley were both inspired by the smiley face created by Worcester’s Harvey Ball in 1963. Smiley Ball is made to look like a yellow smiley-face pin, complete with a faux safety ...

"There really truly is irony in the concept over a dispute over a smile," WooSox President Dr. Charles Steinberg said with a ...

In 1963, an insurance company hired Ball to create some kind of image to boost morale — something to put on a button. Ball took all of 10 minutes to draw the yellow smiley face, and the State ...

On World Smile Day, a walking, baseball bat-swinging, round yellow smiley face walked out of Worcester City Hall. Pharrell’s hit song “Happy” played on a small boom box as Smiley Ball walked ...

Harvey Ball, a commercial artist whose design of a “smiley face” became a pop icon for the 1970s, died Thursday in Worcester, Mass., after a short illness. He was 79.

The ubiquitous yellow smiley face symbol was created in 1963. ... when the graphic designer Harvey Ball was approached by State Mutual Life Assurance Company to create a morale booster for employees.

An original Harvey Ball smiley face (image: The World Smiley Foundation) In the 1994 Robert Zemeckis film, Forrest Gump stumbles into the history books as he runs across the country. At one point ...

WORCESTER — The Worcester Historical Museum wants to make July 9 to 11 "a weekend of smiles" to celebrate the 100th birthday of Harvey Ball, creator of the smiley face. A party from 4 to 5 p.m ...

But the image quickly gained popularity, and yellow smiley faces started popping up on everything from greeting cards to T-shirts to stickers. Neither Ball nor the insurance company trademarked ...

Smiley Ball and Smiley were both inspired by the smiley face created by Worcester’s Harvey Ball in 1963. Smiley Ball is made to look like a yellow smiley-face pin, complete with a faux safety ...