WORCESTER - Despite gray skies, there was plenty for Worcester to smile about on Friday. In addition to being World Smile Day, Worcester Red Sox mascot Smiley Ball made its inaugural stroll around ...

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.

There are a few reptile fanatics that smile when they see snakes, but maybe only one snake that can smile right back at you … three times.

The ubiquitous yellow smiley face symbol was created in 1963. ... when the graphic designer Harvey Ball was approached by State Mutual Life Assurance Company to create a morale booster for employees.

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 ...

Monahan's hand-drawn design has the smiley face wearing glasses that also spell out "100th." Smiley is in front of a banner reading "100th Birthday Celebration of Harvey Ball, July 10, 2021." ...

OK! Magazine. Smiley Sandra Bullock Has a Ball at L.A. Lakers Game in Rare Public Outing 1 Year After Partner Bryan Randall's Death: Photos. Posted: December 24, 2024 | Last updated: December 24, 2024 ...

In 1999, Ball created World Smile Day to encourage kindness and combat the over-commercialization of the smiley face. The day falls of the first Friday of October.

Articles and photos about the Washington, D.C., Mardi Gras Ball brought memories of the 1969 ball to Susan Hendry Tureau, of Baton Rouge: "I was a princess in this ball when I was a junior at LSU.

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 ...

Dear Smiley: Years ago, my son Ross, then 3 to 5 years old, had a knack for creating words. As doting parents do, we quickly adopted such words into our family vernacular.