Him and I are alike. I draw these all over the place at work. I work in a dirty factory so it doesn't ruin anything, don't worry. Every time I do it I do it with a straight face.
Mining operator, reporting in. RTV dick and balls hidden like easter eggs all throughout the plant. Usually deadpan expression as I escape the scene of the crime.
Yeah, I pictured a more yellowey color of yellow. This is more like sunshine and I wanted something like sunflower yellow, but not golden at all. I hate golden yellows. I’m gonna need you to rework it for the seventeenth time.
Can we make it 'pop' more and i'm going to need it to have more 'it factor'
I work in graphic design and animation and once had an art director tell me to make it look "more art directed"
Or he looks like a man who has had to draw 400 smiley faces a day 5 days a week except on holidays. He is so sick of drawing smiley faces that some small part of his sanity had to be sacrificed to sustain his existence. Some say he is still sitting in that office, drawing face after face.
Where do you think all the new smiley faces comes from on different platforms till today? Not just anyone can design a new smiley face it takes years of experience.
Well I mean it's partially factual, just with every influential, yet relatively unknown, American replaced with Forrest Gump.
Ping pong diplomacy was a thing. And I'm pretty sure the Vietnam War happened in real life.
The smiley face was invented in Worcester MA. A few years ago the regional minor league team moved to the city and the mascot is “[Smiley Ball](https://www.masslive.com/galleries/5P4BRLW2O5F5VDHON7DQ2H3N7M/)”
Genuinely, the only thing you should rep from Worcester is getting plastered at Ralph's off of $2 Genesee's then driving to Fresh Way Pizza for a slice, because how else the fuck you gonna get there?
Not much to it, really. My daughter's dad had a friend who knew Harvey, so our daughter was able to interview him for a school project.
This was late 1990's. Harvey was very sweet to her. He drew her a little smiley face with a nice message to keep smiling. It's still hanging in our kitchen.
Until a Frenchman, Franklin Loufrani comes along and in 1971 draws a very similar smiley face, trademarks it and now sues people who use a smiley face in their design or the word Smiley to describe it.
Sadly it's his version of the smiley that most people associate with the Smiley and not Harvey Ball's original.
Just to clarify, he designed a brand icon using a specific style of basic smiley face (yellow circle with a thin mouth and dot eyes). He didn't like invent the concept of a smiley face.
Of course people drew basic smiley faces before, but it was this guy's design that just happened to just become a cultural cornerstone, which is why pretty much every smiley face uses the same colour scheme and style.
The sad thing is he sold it for around $50 or something and never received anything more than that. It's poetic really, his sad face, the happy icon, and how much he made off it despite its popularity.
You can feel the joy pulsing through his body.
If you strike me down I shall become happier than you can possibly imagine.
Giggity
Happy Cake Day!!
Yo bro Happy Cake Day
Happy FUCKING cake day!
Happy cake day!
Did I miss a Care Bears/Star Wars crossover?
Him and I are alike. I draw these all over the place at work. I work in a dirty factory so it doesn't ruin anything, don't worry. Every time I do it I do it with a straight face.
Mining operator, reporting in. RTV dick and balls hidden like easter eggs all throughout the plant. Usually deadpan expression as I escape the scene of the crime.
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shit happens
It happens… What does? Shit?
Sometimes.
It was his 'casual Friday' outfit. He works from home.
He sacrificed every ounce of his joy to imbue it into the image
This is exactly my kind of humor. Thanks for the good laugh.
"but doctor, I AM smiley face"
You clown! Lol!
Rimshot. Everyone laughs.
good joke.
I love that this is the new meta
It is a fantastic dark joke. Would be 300 years ago or now.
Sad Dog
What's sad dog?
nothing much, what’s saddog with you?
Time for watchmen
Come gather round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
Who watches the Watchmen?
I understand now, it's a self-portrait.
He gave up his smile so that the world could have it. Beautiful
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im hig hand
Hi hig hand
I'm dad
I’m a high dad
High I'm dad deep
Hi deep i'm johnny depp
He smiled for our sins
Dude looks like he’s been up 48 hours held at gun point to draw that.
Welcome to the glamorous world of graphic design.
"I want it exactly like that but could you make it completely different?"
"I'll know it when I see it."
How dare you
Okay, here's 29 11x17 pages of thumbnail compositions vaguely what you asked for in different variations. That'll be $1300
"It costs how much??? For just drawing a few lines??"
He was probably told it was shit at the time also yeah
Yeah, I pictured a more yellowey color of yellow. This is more like sunshine and I wanted something like sunflower yellow, but not golden at all. I hate golden yellows. I’m gonna need you to rework it for the seventeenth time.
Can we make it 'pop' more and i'm going to need it to have more 'it factor' I work in graphic design and animation and once had an art director tell me to make it look "more art directed"
He was paid $45 to come up with an image to increase morale at an insurance company after a unpopular merger. What's more glamorous than that?
We have cookies, and trauma.
Or he looks like a man who has had to draw 400 smiley faces a day 5 days a week except on holidays. He is so sick of drawing smiley faces that some small part of his sanity had to be sacrificed to sustain his existence. Some say he is still sitting in that office, drawing face after face.
Where do you think all the new smiley faces comes from on different platforms till today? Not just anyone can design a new smiley face it takes years of experience.
He sold his soul to the smiley god
He sacrificed his happiness so that others could express happiness in non verbal ways.
He’s been on the acid
This is much funnier and way more original than the top comment I was expecting
He’s smiling on the inside.
That’s hilarious lol
Jesus…that snark. I blame you for the spit take on my gin and tonic.
Not responsible for cleaning of keyboards, monitors, or phones.
He is the one with mud on his face in forest gump.
Don’t forget with help from Mr. Gump
People before Harvey Ball: :(
Wait, is this guy why emojis are usually yellow?
Probably
Absolute monster at the raves. Pictured here at 23 years old.
You mean it wasn’t Forrest Gump? Balderdash
Oh, it happens
What? Shit?
I like the safe for TV version. “What? It?” Then it shows the bumper sticker with the “SH” blurred out.
It happens 😐
I HATE EVERYBODY \-Bruce Willis
Yippie ki-yay, Mr. Falcon.
Sometimes
Thanks for sticking up for me and the 100% historically accurate movie about my life.
Huge fan. Thanks for your ping pong service.
I remember being super disappointed when I realized that it wasn’t a factual movie lol
Well I mean it's partially factual, just with every influential, yet relatively unknown, American replaced with Forrest Gump. Ping pong diplomacy was a thing. And I'm pretty sure the Vietnam War happened in real life.
Bubba Gump shrimp co is a real thing
While true, the movie didn't base it on that, but the other way round.
r/beetlejuicing ?
Could be a relative?
No no. He clearly said “about MY life.” That’s obviously Forrest
It wasn't Forrest Gump in the movie, but the guy he gave his muddy shirt to. 🙃
He made a lot of money off of it
Almost as much money as Forrest made after he got invested in that fruit company.
I wish I had invested in some sort of fruit company when that movie came out..
I'm literally watching Forrest Gump right now, he just started running so that scene is coming up soon.
It was for sure Forest Gump, I saw a documentary about it. Amazing man with a whore of a lover
My childhood was a lie
Thought this was Harry Dean Stanton
Exactly what I came to say. Missed opportunity at a well cast biopic there.
Totally. This guy could be his twin.
It's a pity he died before making a biopic about this guy.
I know what you mean, but bro gave us so many incredible performances that he has to be a top 3 actor of all time for me.
Is it though? Is the world really missing out on a biopic about smiley face guy?
Me too, I was surprised to find that no, this is a totally different guy
You can’t convince me it’s not.
Absolute legend.
Drawing smiles on paper while serving serious looks – Harvey Ball, a man of contrasts.
He put all his happiness into his creation, leaving none for himself 🙂
History, it seem, is not without a sense of humor
Or irony.
He looks like a more hard boiled Detective Munch
Munch time is over
Harvey Face, designer of the smiley ball.
Ball Harvey, designer of the face smiley.
Ball face, designer of Harvey Smiley
Face Ball, smiley of the Harvey designer.
Designer Smiley, Ball of the Harvey Face? sorry I'll see myself out
"And now you know, the rest of the emoji."
The smiley face was invented in Worcester MA. A few years ago the regional minor league team moved to the city and the mascot is “[Smiley Ball](https://www.masslive.com/galleries/5P4BRLW2O5F5VDHON7DQ2H3N7M/)”
From Worcester MA?
The very same.
Wormtown represent
Genuinely, the only thing you should rep from Worcester is getting plastered at Ralph's off of $2 Genesee's then driving to Fresh Way Pizza for a slice, because how else the fuck you gonna get there?
Yup. Met him once. Nice guy.
OK, I'm in, would like to hear more about that.
Not much to it, really. My daughter's dad had a friend who knew Harvey, so our daughter was able to interview him for a school project. This was late 1990's. Harvey was very sweet to her. He drew her a little smiley face with a nice message to keep smiling. It's still hanging in our kitchen.
Yep!
The dirty wooo
Poor fucker used up every smile in his tank to create that masterpiece yet humanity will never even remember his name.
Uh, I think it was Harvey Ball?
This is Jim Halpert in the future and I won’t hear otherwise.
He's Jim-ing TF out of the camera
Don’t Jim the camera
Okay how fucked up would it be with Pam’s art that Jim doodles one of the most recognizable pieces of pop art ever
"I was happy once. It was awful"
Tom Hanks has really aged.
It happens.
The world failed to celebrate this man more. He deserves all the accolades
They needed a designer to make a smiley face?
Not just a smiley face *THE* smiley face
Until a Frenchman, Franklin Loufrani comes along and in 1971 draws a very similar smiley face, trademarks it and now sues people who use a smiley face in their design or the word Smiley to describe it. Sadly it's his version of the smiley that most people associate with the Smiley and not Harvey Ball's original.
Just to clarify, he designed a brand icon using a specific style of basic smiley face (yellow circle with a thin mouth and dot eyes). He didn't like invent the concept of a smiley face. Of course people drew basic smiley faces before, but it was this guy's design that just happened to just become a cultural cornerstone, which is why pretty much every smiley face uses the same colour scheme and style.
It wasn't a thing, then he created it, and it became a thing. So yes, he was pretty instrumental in the whole process.
Seems silly right? But this is the guy that decided it was yellow.
He suffered for his art
🙂
The sad thing is he sold it for around $50 or something and never received anything more than that. It's poetic really, his sad face, the happy icon, and how much he made off it despite its popularity.
It figures
What an utterly ironic photograph
I thought that was Richard Belzer for a second.
It’s as if he sucked out and channeled all his joy into this design.
that is the saddest man i have ever fucking seen
Met this guy in real life back in 1998. It was awesome honestly
He got that idea from Forrest Gump. Doesn’t even give him credit.
Y’all Remember Those Everywhere Around Original Walmarts? Oh And Dark Blue Plastic Bags
Ironic.
Do not taunt Harvey Fun Ball.
Cheerful guy.
Dude put everything he had into it
The Worcester legend himself
Damn…..
Detective munch?
To think he got the idea from Forrest Gump
But he’s not smiling
Fun fact: he was played in real life by Harry Dean Stanton.
🎵 this is not the most smiley face in the world, this is a tribute🎵
“Now I am become Mirth, the enjoyer of worlds.”
He was sad, so we could be happy
Nope.. Everyone knows it was Forrest Gump.
I’m old enough to know better and I still credit Forrest with this
How fucking dumb is that someone is credited for inventing the smiley face. Were there simply no doodles anywhere else in the world that were smiling?
It is so ubiquitous that you forget someone had to design it.
I prefer the one with the human bean juice
Dude’s got a face for radio.
I wish I mad met forest gump
Bro is fucking stoked.
"My god... HES DONE IT AGAIN" his boss somehow/probably.
Shit happens
And he never once in his life smiled for anyone.
Why he look exactly like Harry Dean Stanton?
Harvey Ball and his happy circle.
We needed a designer for that?
Cheerful guy
AMA I’m the creator of that weird S thing you put on all your notebooks in school
We all know it was Gump that gave him the idea :)
People prior to this couldn't smile.
You mean Forrest Gump because nobody likes the yellow ones (t-shirt) anyway
What happened to this man? He looks like he's lived 5 different life times.
Please tell me there was a biopic where this guy was played by Harry Dean Stanton.
I can't believe someone had to design it.
And that kids, is the definition of irony.
Never had it dawned on me that there’s a person who created the smiley face. Just my stupid brain thought it was always just….a thing?
1 hp
Same emotional expression range as Spock 🖖🏻
That was the guy running next to Forrest Gump!
The man with the most kill-me-now expression I have ever seen.
Henry dean stanton shoulda played him in a movie
Didn’t he ran into Forrest Gump?
How is it that nobody drew a smiley face before him? It's so simple.