Comments on: Who Really Invented the Smiley Face? http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/03/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:50:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: stefano http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/03/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face/#comment-790 stefano Tue, 19 Mar 2013 11:55:17 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=2789#comment-790 To be precise, I would say you "create" a trademark (or a character): forgive me, I am a lawyer. By the way, more equivocal than Margarita is the Martini (or Martini Cocktail as they say in Europe) name origin: some think, wrongly, that it derives from Martini producers (Italy) of vermouths (inter alia), but Noilly Prat (France) was already in the market with a dry vermouth well before Martini! Still no final word on its name has been given. Best. Stefano Galli, Italy To be precise, I would say you “create” a trademark (or a character): forgive me, I am a lawyer.

By the way, more equivocal than Margarita is the Martini (or Martini Cocktail as they say in Europe) name origin: some think, wrongly, that it derives from Martini producers (Italy) of vermouths (inter alia), but Noilly Prat (France) was already in the market with a dry vermouth well before Martini! Still no final word on its name has been given.

Best.

Stefano Galli, Italy

]]> By: Dean http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/03/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face/#comment-778 Dean Mon, 18 Mar 2013 20:09:48 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=2789#comment-778 Regarding the article about originators of Happy Face graphics, I need to give credit where it's due. Gale Geer, a male friend of mine in the ninth grade at Franklin Junior High School, Yakima, Washington, in 1954(!) offered to be my "campaign manager" for ninth grade class resident. We won. Gayle dreamed up and drew a hundred or more happy faces. These were on yellow paper, about 3" in diameter, with black graphics exactly like today's popular style. Under the smile, he printed, Vote for Dean. He fixed safety pins on the back with scotch tape and we handed them out. Almost everyone wanted one. They were a big hit. I probably would have lost the election without them. Thanks again, Gale! Regarding the article about originators of Happy Face graphics, I need to give credit where it’s due. Gale Geer, a male friend of mine in the ninth grade at Franklin Junior High School, Yakima, Washington, in 1954(!) offered to be my “campaign manager” for ninth grade class resident.
We won. Gayle dreamed up and drew a hundred or more happy faces. These were on yellow paper, about 3″ in diameter, with black graphics exactly like today’s popular style. Under the smile, he printed, Vote for Dean. He fixed safety pins on the back with scotch tape and we handed them out. Almost everyone wanted one. They were a big hit. I probably would have lost the election without them. Thanks again, Gale!

]]> By: Kathy http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/03/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face/#comment-765 Kathy Sat, 16 Mar 2013 15:42:20 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=2789#comment-765 IMO what makes the Harvey Ball Smiley Face so memorable is the neon yellow color. Other colors always come off as imitations in my mind. IMO what makes the Harvey Ball Smiley Face so memorable is the neon yellow color. Other colors always come off as imitations in my mind.

]]> By: Cathy Plum http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/03/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face/#comment-760 Cathy Plum Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:33:00 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=2789#comment-760 * baby-room * baby-room

]]> By: Cathy Plum http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/2013/03/who-really-invented-the-smiley-face/#comment-759 Cathy Plum Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:31:58 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/design/?p=2789#comment-759 I can tell you why it came back in 1996. In 1995, I waspregnant & wanted the babay room to be all smiley faces! My mom & I called every fabric manufacturer looking for smiley material - nothing. Lamps? Transfers? Anything? Not much - a ceramic bank, crappy mfr fabric copy-cats - so we made our own stuff ~ it was awesome. : ) Hee-hee. I can tell you why it came back in 1996. In 1995, I waspregnant & wanted the babay room to be all smiley faces! My mom & I called every fabric manufacturer looking for smiley material – nothing. Lamps? Transfers? Anything? Not much – a ceramic bank, crappy mfr fabric copy-cats – so we made our own stuff ~ it was awesome. : ) Hee-hee.

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