Who first produced the happy face sticker?
We headed to Yahoo! and typed “happy face inventor” into the search bar. Although we didn’t find any matching Yahoo! categories, we did receive a list of Google search results that made us very, very happy. The inventor of the ubiquitous yellow smiley face was Harvey Ball, a World War II veteran and graphic designer from Worcester, Massachusetts. He died last April at 79, having earned 45 dollars from his masterpiece. The smiley face rose from the ashes of a particularly nasty corporate merger. During the early ’60s, employee morale at the State Mutual Life Insurance was suffering. To perk up the workers, management decided to implement a “friendship campaign,” which mandated smiling during office hours. Ball spent 10 minutes designing the smiley face on a freelance assignment and was paid hi
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