What is a Google doodle?
Let’s explain what is a google doodle. According to wikipedia, a doodle is:
A doodle is a type of sketch, an unfocused drawing made while a person’s attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes… (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodle)
In Google context, a Doodle is a google icon that can change its shape and its theme in order to celebrate an event or a bank holiday.
A bit of story about Google doodle
Since its birth, Google has introduced doodle in its homepage.
At the beginning the first doodle was created for the “Burning Man”. It wasn’t meant to celebrate the festival, but to inform people that google staff was at the “Burning Festival”.
The next doodle, it was created to celebrate Halloween and entirely drawn by Brin, a first doodles supporter.
This time the aim was different: for the first time the intent was to inform that Google was celebrating that holiday.( Out of Curiosity: If you pay attention to that doodle you can see that one of the two “o” of Google is not wholly hidden by the pumpkin.)
People liked so much this bizarre way of editing icons to celebrate events and bank holidays that Google had to convene a committee to manage doodles.
Since then, doodle production has increased more and more, keeping up with its style and its originality at the same time.
The author of these creations is Dennis Hwang who is the official designer for Google doodles since 2000.
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Am I the first ? That would be the first time
Merci for this great website
Appreciate the site, but can’t find any way to contact you other than this blog. You seem to be avoiding doodles posted in the USA (Veteran’s Day, the 3 Thanksgiving logos) – what’s up with that?
Great site. Keep going.