The imprint of Gump’s face left a perfect, abstract smiling face on the bright yellow t-shirt. And thus, an icon was born. As you probably expect, that was not how the iconic smiley face was ...

The ubiquitous yellow smiley face symbol was created in 1963. ... Dismaland in 2015, one can mentally reassemble the three shapes into their familiar formation: two eyes and a swooping smile. ...

Wal-Mart grabbed the image as it’s corporate logo in 1996 and fought The Smiley company over it and finally settled in 2007, the terms unknown. And the man who first came up with it made $45 ...

Nirvana has been in court for years over the famous drawing – a yellow smiley face with X’d-out eyes that first appeared during promotion for 1991’s Nevermind.

By the ‘70s, the smiley face was beginning to infiltrate popular culture. Around 1970, two brothers from Philadelphia, Bernard and Murray Spain, began selling products – coffee mugs, tea trays ...

Nirvana’s logo – a yellow smiley face with X’d-out eyes — first appeared during promotion for 1991’s Nevermind.The design eventually became something of an unofficial emblem for the band ...