Formerly known as smileys and often confused with emoticons ... They're sometimes known respectively as Shy Face and Blushing ...

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, 21-year-old Hafeezat Bishi spoke about her experience with the emoji as some of her new ...

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

the Smiley brand turns 50. Over that time, the iconic smiling face and its many emoticon descendants have brought an attitude of ‘defiant optimism’ to a dizzying array of different partnerships, ...

How a simple line drawing of a smiley face became a global shorthand for brands to connect with people on an emotional level When Franklin Loufrani trademarked the now iconic smiling face symbol in ...

Emojis have revolutionised the way we communicate. Not only is emoji the fastest growing language in the nation, the little critters have allowed us to interact in new and unforeseen ways.

Writer Lizzie Pook put a handful of blushing cures to the test in a bid to banish her red face - here’s what she learned. It was like a scene from a film – one of those perky high school ...

Did you know that the inventor of the smiley face only made $45 for the design? The WGN Morning News team also discusses actor Laurence Olivier’s prosthetic nose and the Johnny and Joan ...

To the casual observer, it is just a photo of a man holding up a smiley face - an image used hundreds of millions of times a day in messages across the world to say "happy". But this smiley face ...

Artist Matt Smiley is back with a new exhibition in Los Angeles. Smiley's latest art show — Love, Nostalgia, and the Tempest of My Mind — draws influences from iconic artists such as Picasso ...

It gets trickier still when the hero’s lineage is as complex and drawn-out as that of George Smiley, the late John le Carré’s legendary secret agent who first appeared on the bookshelves 63 ...