The earliest version of Happy Smiling Face was designed by Harvey Bauer, a freelance designer in Worcester, Massachusetts. Joe Young, the promotion director of Massachusetts Mutual Insurance Company, retouched this pattern and asked Harvey Bauer to design it into a wearable round badge, hoping to boost the morale of the company's employees (the company was preparing to merge with other companies at that time, and the morale of the employees was low). According to news records, Bauer first drew a smiling mouth, but he was worried that those disgruntled employees might wear the badge backwards on purpose, so he added two eyes to distinguish the direction of the badge, and finally added a golden * * * as the background. Look, a happy face is born.

Harvey Bauer recalled in an interview with the Associated Press: There are two ways to do it (draw a happy smile). You can draw an exact circle with a compass and a pair of discerning eyes. But you can also draw by hand, which is full of fun, just like I did. Let this smiling face be full of personality.

In the interview, Bauer also said that in the history of mankind or art, there has never been a pattern that can make everyone feel joy and happiness in such a simple form, and in the field of art, there has never been such a simple and easy-to-understand art work.

* * * At the beginning, only 100 of these badges were made in children's life, but because this smiling face was very popular, it was quickly distributed, so more smiling face badges were produced. In 1964, john adams, vice president of the insurance company, also wore such a smiley badge in a photo. Bauer got a design fee of $45 for designing this design, but neither he nor the insurance company applied for a registered trademark for this design.

Isn't this smiling face a brand?

The movie seems to be Forrest Gump, right? I remember.

French smiley face finally found = =