How a simple line drawing of a smiley face became a global shorthand for brands to connect with people on an emotional level When Franklin Loufrani trademarked the now iconic smiling face symbol in ...

In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with ... first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between emoticons and emoji ...

The iconic yellow smiley face has an interesting story behind it - and it was around long before the emoticon. In 1963, comic artist and graphic designer Harvey Ball was commissioned by an ...

Formerly known as smileys and often confused with emoticons ... It's normally used in awe of something. Face With Symbols ...

First the thumbs up, now the smiley face. Young people have been urging everyone to stop using the ‘smiley’ emoji because it ...

To the casual observer, it is just a photo of a man holding up a smiley face - an image used hundreds of millions of times a day in messages across the world to say "happy". But this smiley face ...