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The Man Behind Google Artwork

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-long-till-he-hates-the-word-google dept.

malyn writes "CNN has an article on the artist who designs the custom Google logos for holidays, special events, etc. From the article: '[Dennis Hwang] has been manipulating the six letters in the Google name into shamrocks, fireworks, hearts and goblins since shortly after he got an internship there in 2000. Company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin found out that he was an art major in college. They said "Hey Dennis, why don't you give this a shot,"' and he has been doing it ever since."

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  1. Re:If he's that good . . . by dcdomain · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrote about him a while back too, there's an NPR interview with him: http://design.weblogsinc.com/2005/11/18/dennis-hwa ng-the-man-behind-the-google-logos/

  2. Google logo archive... by GillBates0 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Google logo archive: here. My personal favorite is the Einstein one.

    There was also a Dilbert series if anyone remembers it from when it went live.

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  3. Re:If he's that good . . . by in2mind · · Score: 1, Informative
    maybe slashdot should hire him to design slashdot logos,... ;-)

    Thats not a joke. Slashdot needs to redesign the logo......
    Slashdot looks pretty much the same ever after the recent design upgrade.

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  4. Been going on for years by kmahan · · Score: 5, Informative

    This has been going on for literally decades. Lots of old "time sharing" systems would add custom MOTDs for holidays. The University of Illinois Plato System used to customize the "clock page" on the login display (512x512 plasma display terminals back in the '70s!). It got turned into a pumpkin on Halloween, a Christmas tree on christmas, a turkey on ThanksGiving http://www.platopeople.com/whatsnew.html/ midway down the page is an example image from 1973.

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  5. doodle by giriz · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.google.com/doodle.html http://www.google.com/doodle2.html http://www.google.com/doodle3.html http://www.google.com/doodle4.html and so on.... http://www.google.com/doodle11.html

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  6. Re:Wasn't he sued... by Javaman59 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Funny thing is, it's happened twice! First time was in 2002, when they did a Salvador Dali tribute, and second time was in 2006 with a Miro tribute. http://management.silicon.com/government/0,3902467 7,39158308,00.htm Both times the complaints were settled quickly when Google agreed to take down the logo, without admitting fault.

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