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 ...

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 ...

Smiley Ball and Smiley were both inspired by the smiley face created by Worcester’s Harvey Ball in 1963. Smiley Ball is made to look like a yellow smiley-face pin, complete with a faux safety ...