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Nearly 50 years ago, one person gave birth to the iconic smiley face, while someone on the other side of the world turned it into a cash cow worth millions of dollars. Don’t Miss: Why Jason Calacanis ...

In a video installation by James Joyce, a yellow circle rotates as two black ovals and a curved line tumble at the bottom, thwarted by gravity. Watching the video, Perseverance in the Face of ...

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, he ...

In the latest twist in Nirvana’s two-year-old copyright and trademark battle with designer Marc Jacobs over the use of the band’s smiley face design, a California graphic artist has stepped forward… ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There have been some pictures circulating around social media showing a “smiley face” in the night sky that supposedly will be visible on the morning of April 25. In reality, this ...

I used to pride myself on never ending — or beginning — text messages or emails or social media posts with a smiley face or a heart or a winky emoji, on never using such emojis at all. I used to ...