A former Geffen Records art director claims that he, not Kurt Cobain, created Nirvana’s smiley-face logo, which has been at the center of a legal dispute between the band and designer Marc Jacobs.

While some bands and companies boast an elaborate logo and flashy advertising, for the ’90s grunge band out of Seattle—Nirvana—it was a modest squiggly-mouthed smiley face with Xs for eyes ...

Nirvana, grunge-rock pioneers and one of the best-selling bands of all time, sued Marc Jacobs in 2018 over the logo, a crudely drawn face with crossed-out eyes and a tongue-out smile.