Veda #34 : Man Behind The Google Logo

Day 34
"Who ceated the logo for Google, everyday?"

Have you notice that Google's logo change everyday, based on international or cultural events?. Tell you what, it really change everyday, and for me "the one who most likely to google everything", it's kind of routine. I almost google everything, daily, that's why i notice this change (and somehow, it's very interesting, trying to guess whats the meaning of the logo and what event). Imagine, it's just like a 365 projects, drawing a logo everyday. Now we're gonna meet the man behind this creative creation.

First Google logo, made by Sergey Brin

Google is a most popular search engine on the net. In 1998, when the company was founded, Sergey Brin created a basic logo using open source image editor GIMP. It remained standard logo for a long time. During Burning Man Festival of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin designed the first doodle in order to notify users of their absence. Since then, Dennis Hwang was assigned to create Google logos.

All those beautiful doodles that show up at Google home page on festivals and special occasions are made by Dennis Hwang, a webmaster from Google team. First time, Larry Page and Sergey Brin asked him to come up with the doodle for Bastille Day in 2000. Realizing his talent and considering the fact that Dennis Hwang was graduated from Art major, Page and Brin decided to assigning Hwang as webmaster, since then he is incharge for drawing doodles for festivals, birthdays, Olympics, independence days and national holidays.

Dennis Hwang, man behind the festive logo

After lot of research, brainstorming and search for images on Google, Dennis Hwang sketches the subject in combination with letters of Google. He uses digital tablet and software’s like Painter or Photoshop to transform ideas into art. His favourite characters are O and L which can be manipulated easily. He finds G the most difficult to deal with, and gives little attention to E because of its location.
And now, to search more talent and to introduced Google to children, he made a competition called "Doodle 4 Google", the winner's logo of this competition will displayed on Google homepage one whole day.

Here's some of the Goggle logo that've been made and published :


If you interested to see the logo that've been made up until present day, you can visit Google Logo