Ball took all of 10 minutes to draw the yellow smiley face, and the State Mutual Life ... and simply grabbed the design and wrote, “Have a Happy Day” on it. They sold 100 million.

There is no doubt that it’s a smiley face, though it looks anything but happy. The yellow smiley icon was born in 1963 in Worcester, Massachusetts, when the graphic designer Harvey Ball was ...

Sponsor Message As evidence, his lawyers showed a violent tirade that was punctuated with a smiley-face and a tongue sticking out. In January, in the federal court trial of Ross Ulbricht ...

But now a bitter legal battle over smiley could be enough to make the happy little symbol . Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which uses a yellow happy face to try to put its shoppers in a carefree mood ...

He gave Smiley more facial expressions to convey more emotions. The smiling yellow face has an earlier history without a legal track record, however. Harvey Ross Ball, an American commercial ...

Sure, you can “turn that frown upside down” into a smiley face ... says: "A yellow face with smiling eyes and a broad, open smile, showing upper teeth and tongue on some platforms.

Walmart (WMT) is reviving its yellow smiley image to be the face of its ... including the importance of putting on a happy face. "Put that smile on. People notice that," said "Family Feud" host ...

Well, they have really strong opinions about the use of the smiley face emoji, in particular Apple’s yellow, wide eyed grinning ... a positive sentiment, or happy emotions.

The smiley face, or happy face, was recently spruced up with tiny 4”x5” bright blue and yellow flags, a dramatic remaking of the giant face created in 1998 by Northridge gardener Sonny ...

The nation's top retailer is bringing back a famously happy icon after a 10-year hiatus and lengthy legal battle. A classic yellow smiley face was used by Walmart from 1990-2006 to alert shoppers ...