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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:funny by King_TJ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  2. Re:Google logo archive... by Ericular · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's interesting to see how far graphic design has come since Halloween of 1999:

    http://www.google.com/holidaylogos99.html