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  Harvey Ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harvey Ball was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.
Harvey Ball served 27 years in the National Guard, and was based in Asia and the Pacific during World War II.
Ball was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism during the Battle of Okinawa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harvey_Ball   (633 words)

  
 Harvey - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Harvey
Established as South Lawn in 1873, Harvey was renamed after a lumber baron who bought the land and organized a land association to attract residential and industrial development.
The Harvey Canal connects the Mississippi River to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at Harvey.
Harvey and William's the only ones that's left now; and, as I was saying, they haven't got here in time.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Harvey   (321 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Harvey Ball
July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining.
Forrest Gump is a 1985 novel by Winston Groom, a 1994 film adaptation, and the name of the titular character of both.
Harvey Ball died on April 12, 2001 as a result of liver failure following after a short illness.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Harvey-Ball   (1164 words)

  
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Harvey was hired by the State Mutual Life Assurance Company to design a logo that would uplift its employees after a company merger had hurt company morale.
Harvey was paid a $45 fee for his timeless creation.
After his death, the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation was established for that purpose while honoring Harvey’s name and memory.
www.bitwisegifts.com /page/bg/hbstory   (685 words)

  
 Harvey (town) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Harvey (town)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harvey developed during the 1890s at the centre of a mixed agricultural and pastoral district.
Much of the area around Harvey was irrigated during the 1930s as a means of providing employment during the Great Depression.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Harvey%20%28town%29   (122 words)

  
 WHM - Smiley Face
Harvey Ball's design sparked a fad that swept the nation in the early 1970s.
Harvey Ball (1921-2001) was born and raised in Worcester.
The "Harvey" pays tribute to Harvey Ball (1921-2001), creator of the smiley face and World Smile Day, by honoring an individual, organization, or group of individuals whose goodwill has made a difference to the City of Worcester.
www.worcesterhistory.org /wo-smiley.html   (763 words)

  
 Harvey The Scarecrow - Sculpey Clay Projects
For his cuffs, mix a 1/2" ball of Granitex blue with 1/2" ball of white until blended.
Now pinch this ball in half, roll each half into a ball and gently press with your fingers and press to the bottom of the body for each leg.
For the leaves pinch 1/8" and 1/4" balls into diamond shapes for the leaves and press to the top of the pumpkins.
www.sculpey.com /Projects/projects_harveyscarecrow.htm   (931 words)

  
 GameSpy.com - Hall of Fame
The promotion, based on an image by graphic designer Harvey Ball, had caused a smaller fad that moved thousands of smiley buttons in the mid-'60s.
Harvey Ball's take was a mere $45 designer's fee.
Sure, Harvey had nothing to with the Stern classic, but perhaps he would have appreciated a happy face that destroys all it touches, enemy or ally alike.
archive.gamespy.com /halloffame/july02/berzerk   (616 words)

  
 Smiley Face Inventor Harvey Ball Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Ball reported that he spent about 10 minutes designing the smiley face, and he was paid $45 for it.
Ball never tried to sue Loufrani, although he did resent Loufrani’s claims to have invented the smiley.
Ball was apparently a fairly happy fellow, and his children affirmed that he was never bitter at missing out on the millions generated by his icon.
www.goodbyemag.com /apr01/ball.html   (739 words)

  
 Boston.com / Latest News / Region
WORCESTER -- Harvey R. Ball, whose simple drawing of a smiling face on a yellow background became a cultural icon, died Thursday after a short illness.
Ball, who co-owned an advertising and public relations firm in Worcester, designed the Smiley Face in 1963 to boost the morale of workers in two recently merged insurance companies.
Ball was paid $45 for his artwork by State Mutual Life Assurance Cos.
www.boston.com /news/daily/13/smiley.htm   (377 words)

  
 Harvey ball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Start the Harvey ball article or add a request for it.
Look for Harvey ball in Wiktionary, our sister dictionary project.
Look for Harvey ball in the Commons, our repository for free images, music, sound, and video.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/harvey_ball   (135 words)

  
 Smiley - Wikipedia
Er wollte seine Mitarbeiter aufmuntern und zeichnete mit einem Kreis mit zwei Punkten und einem gebogenen Strich ein stilisiertes, grinsendes Gesicht.
Harvey Ball kämpfte seitdem um seine Anerkennung als wahrer Vater des Smileys.
Biografie Harvey Ball - The inventor of the Smiley (engl.)
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smiley   (365 words)

  
 . ..:: CABLENET - Curiosidades ::.. .
Para ayudar a esta campaña, la compañía recurrió a un diseñador gráfico, Harvey Ball.
Ball dedicó aproximadamente diez minutos a la creación del rostro sonriente, y cobró su tarifa regular: 45 dólares.
Harvey Ball, su creador, falleció en abril de 2001.
www.cablenet.com.ni /curiosidades/datos_curiosos/carita_sonriente.htm   (396 words)

  
 World Smile Day 2005 Home
As the years passed Harvey Ball became concerned about the over-commercialization of his symbol, and how its original meaning and intent had become lost in the constant repetition of the marketplace.
Harvey’s idea was that for at least one day each year, neither should we.
This year, in addition to sponsoring the World Smile Day Challenge, the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation is working with radio station WTAG to reward deserving people (and 20 of their closest friends, classmates etc.) with a free lunch.
www.worldsmileday.com   (921 words)

  
 this is sippey.com: Open Question: Harvey Balls?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I already know who Harvey Ball was, and I know that he created the smiley face.
"Harvey balls" are named after their inventor--Harvey Poppel, a partner in the international consulting firm Booz Allen.
Harvey added something else to business other than these little icons--there are dozens of them, by the way, mostly humorous.
www.sippey.com /archives/000952.php   (493 words)

  
 Harvey Ball - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon
Auch nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg blieb Harvey Ball dem Militär treu und erhielt mehrere Auszeichnungen.
1959 gründete Harvey Ball seine eigene Werbefirma namens Harvey Ball Advertising, nach dem er einige Jahre Erfahrungen als Angestellter in dieser Branche gemacht hatte.
Durch eine fehlende rechtliche Sicherung des Motivs verdiente Harvey Ball, von den 45 Dollar abgesehen, nichts.
www.lexikon-definition.de /Harvey-Ball.html   (272 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Some groups want to put smile on your plate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Charles Ball thinks he has an answer to road rage in Boston: a Smiley license plate.
The "Smiley Plate," based on Worcester artist Harvey Ball's 1963 creation, is one of 10 concepts for specialty plates that Governor Mitt Romney signed into law Wednesday.
Ball, who heads the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation, plans to use Smiley Plate money to offer grants to teachers who "may just need a few hundred dollars" for a project.
www.orangomango.com /rd/26-09   (586 words)

  
 The Straight Dope: Who invented the smiley face?
Harvey got the assignment from the company's promotions director, Joy Young, who wanted a smile button for a morale boosting campaign ordered up by her boss.
Readers breathlessly awaiting further word from this department on Harvey R. Ball's beleaguered claim to have drawn the original smiley face in 1963 will be pleased to know that one of the smiley sweatshirts given away by WMCA radio in New York in 1962/1963 has turned up--and it's not the canonical smiley.
Now we learn that the citizens of Seattle, figuring that the inventor of the symbol for brain-dead optimism was the ideal candidate to lead them into the brave new world of the 90s, voted for Stern in sufficient numbers to make him one of the two contenders in that city's 1993 mayoral runoff.
www.straightdope.com /classics/a4_031.html   (2188 words)

  
 World Smile Foundation Home
The Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation was established in 2001 to honor the name and memory of Harvey Ball, the artist who in 1963 created that international symbol of goodwill, the smiley face.
The Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation is now the vehicle that channels those after-tax profits to various charities.
In 1999, Harvey Ball declared the first Friday in October each year to be World Smile Day®.
www.worldsmile.org   (651 words)

  
 Harvey Ball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harvey Austin is a philosopher-surgeon who writes to transform cosmetic surgery and aging and to end hunger.
Valve specialists, suppliers of valves from stocks of nickel plated brass ball valves, angle ball valves, mini ball valves, one, two, and three piece carbon and stainless steel ball valves and also butterfly valves.
Matthew Harvey gibt kurz und knapp einen Einblick in seinen Werdegang und seine Leistungen.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Harvey_Ball   (1935 words)

  
 Learning Linux - Where did the Smiley Face Come From?
Harvey was also a World War II Army veteran and awarded the Bronze Star for heroism during the Battle of Okinawa.
Harvey Ball was 79 when he passed away on April 12, 2001, He will be sorely missed but his legacy and message of good will shall live on in everyone of us.
Harvey Ball is indeed mentioned in this page I found through google.
www.learninglinux.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=23   (369 words)

  
 Oliver Weiss Design: ARTICLES > A Smile is a Smile is a Smiley
Harvey R. Ball, der Erfinder des Smileys, Sie wissen schon, dieses gelbe Lachgesicht, das Sie sicherlich irgendwo von einem T-Shirt oder einer Unterhose oder einem Buttonsticker anstrahlt.
Harvey Ball is Dead: The inventor of one of the world's most beloved signets has never received any royalties.
Harvey Ball, ein Werbegrafiker, war nicht der einzige, der für sich reklamierte, das Signet erfunden zu haben.
www.oweiss.com /articles/harveyball.htm   (654 words)

  
 Harvey Ball   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Harvey Ball Smiley Harvey Ross Ball (10 July 1921 12 April 2001) is famous for his invention of the Smiley.
In less then ten minutes the smiley face was complete.
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harvey-ball.ask.dyndns.dk   (562 words)

  
 ZERO-Smileys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In December 1963 Harvey Ball sat down at his desk.
Other artists, less ingenious than Harvey Ball, have tried to "improve" the design and to adapt it for several products and messages, but except for a few modifications to the original they all stuck to the basic elements...
Though you will still find the classical smiley here, the emphasis of the pictures goes beyond those and a hitherto almost unknown or even restricted world of smileys will be presented to you.
www.zeropages.com /smileys/e_index.php   (370 words)

  
 Worcester, MA - Fifth Annual World Smile Day planned
At 12 noon the community is invited to converge on City Hall Plaza when some 2,000 (biodegradable) smiley balloons bearing messages of peace and goodwill be released.
Ball declared that the first Friday of each October should be devoted to the theme Do an act of kindness.
As part of the City Hall Plaza celebration on Friday, October 3, 2003, organizers of the "Embrace the FACE" campaign will be on hand to accept applications for the new Harvey Ball inspired Smiley face license plate now under production at the state's Registry of Motor Vehicles.
www.worcestermass.org /news/Press03/smile.html   (446 words)

  
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Harvey Ball, l'inventeur du Smiley, ce visage tout rond, jaune, fendu d'un large sourire et épinglé de deux yeux en boutons, est décédé le Jeudi 12 Avril 2001 a l'age de 79 ans.
Harvey Ball, copropriétaire d'une agence publicitaire et de relation publiques, avais imaginé, en 1963, ce qui devait devenir un icône culturelle internationale pour redonner le moral aux salariés de deux compagnies d'assurance qui venaient de fusionner.
Harvey Ball n'avait jamais réclamé de droits d'auteur et ne le regrettait pas, selon son fils
www.chez.com /lnheq/Mrball.htm   (170 words)

  
 ClassicGaming.com - GOTW: Bezerk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He's a grinning ball of death who bounces unstoppably toward your humanoid, passing through walls and destroying his companion robots without care.
Somehow, Evil Otto manages to seem more menacing as a smiley high-bounce ball than he probably would have been in any other form.
The game's synthesized speech brought us such memorable phrases as "The humanoid must not escape!", "Chicken, fight like a robot!", and "Coin detected in pocket," which was uttered during the game's Attract mode.
www.classicgaming.com /rotw/bezerk   (1104 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Smiley Face
Ball took a plain disc the color of sunshine, drew a curved line to suggest smiling, then added dots for eyes so no wags wanting to hold their grudges would turn it upside-down.
Easy to draw, pleasant to look at and unhampered by language barriers (or anything else that involves thought processes getting in the way of the obvious message), Smiley quickly passed from employees to their friends, and from there into practically all media of communication.
Harvey Ball, reportedly undismayed by not having capitalized on his brainchild, took the occasion to declare World Smile Day.
www.toonopedia.com /smiley.htm   (761 words)

  
 Smiley
Ball erhielt für den Entwurf 45 Er versäumte die rechtliche Sicherung des Zeichens.
Harvey Ball kämpft seitdem um seine als wahrer Vater des Smileys.
Ball gründete World Smile Foundation die den ursprünglichen Geist des Smileys soll [1].
www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Smileys.html   (162 words)

  
 Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
U.S. Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) today commended the Ball family of Worcester, The US Postal Service, and all those who like to smile for celebrating World Smile Day on October 1.
Harvey Ball, on the occasion of the first annual World Smile Day.
He first designed the yellow smiley face in December 1963 as part of a campaign to enhance morale at his workplace.
www.house.gov /mcgovern/100199_smile.htm   (253 words)

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