Smiley Ball is made to look like a yellow smiley-face pin, complete with a faux safety pin stuck in his back to which a cape can be fastened, Steinberg said.

Charles Ball talked about the history of the Smiley Face symbol. In 1963, the original version of the Smiley Face symbol was created in Worcester, Massachusetts, by Charles Ball's father, graphic ...

Worcester’s Harvey Ball, a freelance artist, invented the iconic smiley face in 1963 to help raise morale at State Mutual Life Assurance Co. (now the Hanover Insurance Group).

SMILEY CAME TO LIFE IN 1963 WHEN THE STATE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA WANTED TO ENCOURAGE EMPLOYEES TO BE HAPPY. GRAPHIC ARTIST HARVEY BALL GOT THE JOB TO CREATE A SMILEY FACE BUTTON.

His creation, a smiling yellow face, bore a striking resemblance to Ball’s smiley. Unlike Ball, Loufrani recognized the marketing potential of the symbol and promptly secured a French trademark.

Snake breeder Justin Kobylka has gone viral for breeding a lavender albino ball python with smiley face emoji markings on it. J. Kobylka Reptiles A snake breeder accidentally created a python with ...

The iconic smiley face image, now also an online emoji, was invented by Harvey Ball in 1963 “when he was commissioned to create a graphic to raise morale among the employees of an insurance ...

Justin Kobylka, a snake breeder in Georgia, sold a rare ball python for $6,000 after the reptile ended up with the shape of three smiley faces on its body.