Harvey Ball

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About Harvey Ball

Harvey Ross Ball was an American commercial artist. In 1963, he created a design for a pin back button, that played a pivotal role in the adoption of the modern day smiley face. Ball was approached by marketing director Joy Young of State Mutual Life Assurance Company in 1963, with the instructions to design "a little smile". Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 10.

Before fame

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Trivia

American illustrator, created the Smiley (died 2001). This page is tagged with Arts & Letters, Historical, American.

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