Have A Day

Have A Day Smileys Button Museum
Category
Smileys
Additional Images
Have A Day button back Smileys Button Museum
Sub Categories
Illustrations
Text on Button HAVE A DAY.
Image Description

Illustration of a yellow smiley face with a blank expression on a white background with black text at the bottom
Curl Text BUTR-765960 copyright RPP inc
Back Style
Locking pin
The Shape
Circle
The Size
1 1/2 inch
Year / Decade Made
1980s
The Manufacturer
RPP Inc.
Additional Information

This expressionless "smiley" button is a response to the iconic image of a smiley face paired with the phrase "Have a Nice Day" that defined the 70s. 

It was known that Harvey Ball, a graphic artist and ad man from Massachusetts created the yellow smiley face in the 50s. In the early 1970s, brothers Bernard and Murray Spain, owners of two Hallmark card shops in Philadelphia appropriated the image by adding the the slogan “Have a Happy Day” to the smile. The Spain brothers copyrighted the revised mark in 1971 and produced their own novelty items shortly after. 
Sources

Stamp, Jimmy. (2013, March 13). Who Really Invented the Smiley Face? Smithsonian.com. Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-really-invented-the-smil….
Catalog ID SM0068