Hello!
How are you? "I hope very well ^ ^
The smiley is known around the world for the simplicity of its lines and the special meaning as it has.
SMILEY
Here 's some info:
A smiley (English to smile,' smile ') is a schematic representation of a smiling face, most sometimes yellow, with black dots for eyes and half circle showing an expression of utter and complete happiness. It is sometimes used "smiley" as synonymous with emoticon, although it is not (not all are emoticons smileys).
Harvey Ball, creator
History
Invention and representation
In 1963, the State Mutual Life Insurantes in Worcester, Massachusetts (insurance company), acquired another insurance company, the Guarantee Mutual Company of Ohio.
This merger created the natural depression in the workforce by fears of layoffs and restructuring inevitable. The management of the new company decided to do an internal campaign Marketing campaign creating friendship. This entailed a new employee handbook and rules among which included an order to smile during work hours, when talking on the phone, receiving customers, etc.
No marketing campaign without design, so the company hired graphic designer Harvey Ball. Note that it took about ten minutes to create the now famous smiling face, charging only $ 45.
At first we did not attempt to make the image a registered trademark, and later fell into the public domain.
Transcendence
The drawing was popularized in the early 1970's by two brothers, Bernard and Murray Spain, who, not being associated with any company, took advantage in a campaign to sell novelty items. The two produced buttons as well as coffee mugs, shirts, bumper stickers and many other items emblazoned with the symbol and the legend "Have a nice day" (Have a nice day), invented by Murray. In 1972 there were an estimated 50 million smiley buttons across the United States, from which point fashion began to decline.
The smiley was one of the main icons adopted by the culture of acid house dance music that emerged in late 1980. Especially in the UK, the logo was especially associated with the underground dance culture with the drug Ecstasy.
There have been variations such as reverse the shape of the mouth to get a sad face. The symbol has been satirized with a smile and three dots (a mutant) and was reborn as Microsoft Bob software image and the campaign of Asda Wal-Mart and Rolling Back Prices ("Returning to past prices).
The smiley has become an essential part of Internet culture, with animated GIFs and other graphic representations, as well as the ubiquitous textual smiley :-) or:). Hence arose the other emoticons. It has also been used for the printable version of the ASCII characters 1 and 2 (a 'white' the other 'black') in the default font for the IBM PC and subsequent machines compatible. 9786 Unicode character (U +263 A WHITE SMILING FACE ☺) is a smiley, like the 9787 (U +263 B ☻ BLACK SMILING FACE). There is also the 9785 (U +2639 ☹ frowning WHITE FACE).
In May 2002, Luke Helder, an American of 21 years, Smiley tried to play a homemade bomb. His first 16 bombs formed circles, the first in Nebraska and the second on the border between Illinois and Iowa, with their eyes. Two other bombs in Texas and Colorado were apparently the beginning of the smile. However, Helder was stopped before reaching completion.
Source: Smiley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Personal Comment: What amazes me is that the operator only won $ 45, well actually the smiley is not so hard to draw, but his success would have to be Ball better known.
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