One of my favorite things about Google is their doodles. You know what I mean... the days when the Google logo isn't just the typical, colorful Google logo.
According to the Google Doodles page, the team at Google has been doodling since the birth of the company!
"In 1998, before the company was even incorporated, the concept of the doodle was born when Google founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. They placed a stick figure drawing behind the 2nd "o" in the word Google, and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were "out of office". While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was born.
Over time, the demand for doodles has risen in the US and internationally. Creating doodles is now the responsibility of a team of talented illustrators (we call them doodlers) and engineers. For them, creating doodles has become a group effort to enliven the Google homepage and bring smiles to the faces of Google users around the world." Source: Google Doodles
I thought we'd share some of our favorite doodles.
November 30, 2011: Mark Twain's 176th Birthday
October 8, 2010: John Lennon's 70th Birthday
July 29, 2008: 50th Anniversary of NASA
January 17, 2011: Dr. Martin Luther King Day
November 10, 2009: 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street
Those are just a few... the list goes all the way back through 1998. What a fun and creative way to celebrate so many things in our world. We've gotta admit... being a Google Doodler would be a pretty awesome job!
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Thu, December 22, 2011
by Jen
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