Smiley Face Flag 5FT X 3FT

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The smiley has now become synonymous with culture across the world. It is used for communication, imagery, branding and for topical purposes to display a range of emotions. Beginning in the 1960s, a yellow happy face was used by numerous brands in print to demonstrate happiness.

Above: The Australian Aboriginal Flag does not have a corresponding region code, like many other flags of the world. Photo: Peripitus. Other Flags Happily for Williams, the single was the most successful song of 2014, with 13.9 million units sold worldwide. Can you guess which icon featured on Williams’ T-shirt in the video? The smiley is one of the rare icons that has drifted free from its origins to become a global phenomenon, immediately recognisable and instantly understood, as at home on a child’s homework as it is on corporate branding, as a digital expression of affirmation or, increasingly, as an ironic symbol of protest.

 

The last question could be one area that pride flags struggle, if it is unclear which pride flags are notable enough for representation, and by which criteria they are more notable than others. For each flag shown on an average emoji keyboard, there are at least four different ways it might be encoded behind the scenes. Still, he was surprised to discover that the image still has the power to provoke. When he and Deller were asked by Somerset House to produce a flag to fly above the building for its Utopia 2016 season (to mark 500 years since the publication of Thomas More’s seminal text), they inevitably landed on the image. At first, Somerset House was uneasy. “They were initially concerned due to the smiley faces’ association with acid house, rave music and recreational drugs,” he says. “But once the flag was up and people started taking pictures of it and seeing it as a positive symbol, it stayed up for two years.” Chequered Flag is the easiest of the flags. It happens to look like a flag, but isn't encoded any differently to a 📻 Radio or 🎺 Trumpet. Gunn, Frank (28 July 2012). "Spectators play with giant smiley face beach balls during the pre-show for the Olympic Games Opening ceremonies in London on Friday July 27, 2012". Vancouver Sun. Archived from the original on 3 October 2020 . Retrieved 9 April 2020.

What deeper cultural meaning can we take from the smiley in 2018, if any? With no "third summer of love" on the horizon and an unsettling amount of geopolitical turbulence in the world, perhaps there's more a sense of "just grin and bear it" to be found in today's smiley. Cherman for one, however, still believes in the icon's power as a source of joy, even when things get bad. After all, life is never perfect — and we're talking about an icon born during the depths of the Cold War and Vietnam, designed the same year President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.Instead of weighing up each region of the world based on regular selection factors (distinctiveness, likely frequency of use, etc); Unicode instead informs vendors of new proposals for subdivision flags at its quarterly Technical Committee meetings [3] and vendors are welcome to act on this information, should they wish to support additional subdivision flags. The very first ASCII emoticons — :- ) and :- ( — actually originated in the ’80s, when computer scientist Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University suggested that the symbols be used to contextualize messages posted on a digital message board.

In the case of Northern Ireland, no major vendor currently supports this flag, potentially due to the country having no official flag other than the Union Flag (🇬🇧). The most commonly-seen Northern Irish flag (he Ulster Banner) has had no official status since 1972 and is not used by the current Northern Ireland government or by the British government, though it is used to represent Northern Ireland internationally in some sporting competitions. ↩︎ As for other (non-geographical) flags, particularly pride flags, it seems as though some of these could be a real possibility, should they be able to make the case of meeting the current Unicode emoji selection factors. Smiley Licensing | Company Profile by". Licensing.biz. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012 . Retrieved 14 March 2013. A gap in Unicode flag support exists when it comes to geographical regions of the world which don't have an ISO region code or subdivision code.This is a clever system that avoids Unicode needing to create a new code point for every country. The United States flag is a sequence of these two characters: The band Nirvana created its own smiley design in 1991. [69] It was claimed that Kurt Cobain was the designer of the Nirvana smiley. Following his death, this claim was one of the reasons why it became so iconic. As recently as 2020, media reports suggested a Los Angeles–based freelance designer was in fact behind the designs. [69] The smiley face was included in Unicode's Miscellaneous Symbols from version 1.1 (1993). [38] Unicode smiley characters: The Danish poet and author Johannes V. Jensen was amongst other things famous for experimenting with the form of his writing. In a letter sent to publisher Ernst Bojesen in December 1900, he includes both a happy face and a sad face. It was not until the 1900s that the design evolved from a basic eye and mouth design, into a more recognisable design. [ citation needed] Dave Swindells, the photographer who definitively documented the scene’s formative years, agrees that anti-authoritarian attitudes were both inherent to the culture and essentially unpredictable in character. “Rave and the dance scene really flourished as a result of illegal activity,” he says. “Whether that was holding illegal parties or drug use. So it goes with the territory that people should be open to a diverse and contrary range of opinions. You didn’t just go to those events to dance, but also for the social fun and games; the after-parties. What you could call alternative ideas were fundamental to the scenes which celebrated outsiders. There was an openness to unusual ideas.”

In May 1972, Mad magazine got in on the act when it published a smiley-themed cover – with Alfred E Neuman's inimitable face contained within a yellow disc. It was over in France in the same year, however, that journalist Franklin Loufrani became the first person to register the icon for commercial use. ZWJ Sequences are generally seen as more flexible, but it would be odd to use a color-based sequence if the design for any particular pride flag is likely to change over time. The same would apply to any code point that referenced the design instead of the intention.

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In the DC Comics, shady businessman " Boss Smiley" (a political boss with a smiley face for a head) makes several appearances.



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