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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1963, an artist called Harvey Ball in the USA created a big yellow smiley face. It became really popular - but over time Harvey became worried that it was losing its meaning.

Don’t expect to see much of the Sphere’s already iconic yellow smiley face during Saturday night’s Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix. F1 and the FIA, the motorsports global governing body, have ...

Ball was born in 1921 in Worcester and is credited with creating the popular yellow smiley face, complete with two simple dots for eyes and a black smiling mouth.