by Jeffrey Melton, designer and media artist.

Smiley Face

How an in-house campaign became a global icon:

When Harvey Ball took a black felt-tip pen to a piece of yellow paper in 1963, he never could have realized that he was drafting the face that would launch 50 million buttons and an eventual war over copyright.

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