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The Man Behind Google Artwork
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."
Yeah... I never realized they had just one person doing all of those logos! I guess I just assumed it was a tradition carried on by different folks in the design team. It's a nice touch, especially since their site is pretty basic and uncluttered. It allows the art to really stand out.
It's interesting to see how far graphic design has come since Halloween of 1999:
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos99.html
I happen to have loads of asian friends in the tech industry and many of them are artists and programmers.
You might well note that asians are often good at fine art due to the very nature of their writing system.
Interesting writeup from an XGoogler about how that turned out ..
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Any company that can identify, hire, promote, motivate, and retain people like this is going to be successful... oh and have great logos!
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Does anyone know why they've got artwork for, say, Thanksgiving every single year, and some seemingly off-mainstream ones (Persian New Year, e.g.), but they've not ever done Christmas or Chanukah? All they have is some "holiday" mumbo-jumbo with snowmen. Is this yet another win for the politically correct crowd, or is something less sinister at work?
Wasn't he, or Google, sued by some dead artist's wife for ripping off the artist's "style" in some homage he did to that particular artist? A truly meritless suit if I've ever heard of one.
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