A top Japanese pop artist in town for a big gallery opening was busted the night before his show when cops spotted him drawing a smiley face on the wall of an East Side subway station after a ...

a Japanese ballpoint pen artist, drew 29,249 mini smiley faces, according to Buzzfeed. So, you know, just a regular amount. Using a Hi-Tec-C pen, Asuka discovered that one postcard (10 x 15 cm ...

The Japanese superstar ... in his pop-art paintings and sculptures. He has also developed himself and his work into a major brand. He even has a logo: a hybrid sunflower smiley face, which ...

Harvey Ball, a commercial artist whose design of a “smiley face” became a pop icon for ... in the Army during World War II. During a Japanese mortar attack on Okinawa, a shell landed a few ...

In 1963, comic artist and graphic designer ... or ))) for extreme happiness. Japanese emoticons are called ‘kaomojis’ from ‘kao’ (meaning ‘face’) + moji. Kaomojis use the kanji ...