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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."
maybe slashdot should hire him to design slashdot logos,... ;-)
There was also a Dilbert series if anyone remembers it from when it went live.
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It's funny how getting in on the ground floor of something like Google can let one individual stand out like this... Imagine if Google decided now to start putting up cystom art with each holiday. Due to their size, I'm sure it would be a huge heck of a mess... getting an artist, deciding on designs, figuring out what goes with the corporate principles. He's a lucky guy, getting to do that on his own... I can barely get approval for a logo for our intranet, that will only be seen by 20 people, due to the issues I raised above.
This guy kind of says the phrase 'kind of' kind of too often.
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You mean like they did on December 26, 1996? Yes, how unoriginal of them, trying to pull a fast one on us knowing full well that Google would do the same almost a half decade later.
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Interesting writeup from an XGoogler about how that turned out ..
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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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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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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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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?
From TFA: "Sometimes we unfortunately take some sites down, so we have to cycle through different search queries midday,"
Have you heard of Google Cache? Just link to it instead if the site goes down.
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Why would the ACLU be involved? If anything, they'd protect Google's rights to display what they want.
Yes, I can't wait to see his take on OMG Ponies !!!.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
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.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
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