Happy birthday, Smiley face! Nordstrom has some fancy presents Only 10 stores in the U.S. and Canada — two in Texas — will have the Pop-In@Nordstrom x Smiley temporary shops.

The Smiley Company, which brought in $419.9 million in 2017, claims that the smiley is more than an icon, it’s “a spirit and a philosophy.” Though the company is global, this particular ...

While others have created logos with happy and smiling faces, Loufrani trademarked the “smiley” name and began licensing his logo. It became an icon of the 1970s, but declined as the image aged.

After trialling the use of emoticons and tags for posts with a small group of American users, the use of the tags has been rolled out to more users in the US.

In 1963 Ball was hired by the State Mutual Life Assurance Company to create a smiley face icon to boost company morale. He penned his design in 10 minutes. Two dots and a flick, though not without ...

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. Although there have been ...

Maybe the Happy Mac’s smiley face is a little too smug, like most Mac users when confronted with the Windows interface. But it at least tried to shine some light on your day.

All the classic emoticons are there, like the frowning sad face, smiling happy face, and another face that Facebook has labeled “guilty.” Try to keep the latter to a minimum, fellas.