The simple yellow smiley face dates back to the 1960s, and while it started as a banal symbol of corporate happiness, the pictograph has become a cross-generational minefield of misinterpretation.

banal work shirts, recycled fur, and giant parkas into objects of desire. Notably, it transformed a DHL T-shirt into a status symbol. It has been invited to show more recent work as part of Paris ...

Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare is one of those books. Sometimes entertaining and sometimes dull, often hilarious but also relentlessly uncheerful, and packed with brilliant observations as well as ...

it's become its own symbol of a banal, graphically incoherent 21st-century hippie. But the Coexist logo wasn't always just a trip to the semiotic bargain bin. At one time, it was vested with ...

The Internet erupted when Google honored Veterans' Day with a rather banal tweaking of its logo ... look sort of like a crescent moon. It was a symbol of Islam, some said, and thus "distasteful ...