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2010 Google Name Designs. Google Doodles Graphic Name Art
Many of us may not realize that Google decides on which countries to show their Google doodle art in. Noft every country sees the same doodles. What is important and relevant in one country may be meaningless in another country. I happen to live in the United States and these are the doodles that I have seen over time. I have included the dates each graphic design appeared on their homepage.
08/12/2010 Being in Canada so often, prevents me from seeing many doodles that only appear in the US. Today was a logo featuring the Wizard of Oz. The Wizard of Oz is a timeless classic that brings back childhood memories for everyone.
07/04/2010 It appears that there has been a delay on getting out the latest artwork on Independence Day. A ploy? I guess we will wait and see. I must have missed this one, while I was in Canada, I will research it later to add commentary.
07/01/2010 Canada Day is Canada's national day, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into a single country called Canada. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.is Canada's national day, a federal statutory holiday celebrating the anniversary of the July 1, 1867, enactment of the British North America Act (today called the Constitution Act, 1867), which united two British colonies and a province of the British Empire into a single country called Canada. Canada Day observances take place throughout Canada as well as internationally.
06/11/2010 World Cup Soccer begins. The graphic design featured a leg as the 'G' kicking a soccer ball with other soccer players and a goal in place with the other letters.
05/21/2010 - 05/23/2010 Pac-Man arcade game turns 30 years old. Google Doodle was animated Pac-Man video game graphic. It was definitely one of the coolest doodles that I have seen since the Isaac Newton falling berry one. Pac-Man was the cutting edge of technology at one time and still remains a favorite game among many who have been unable to keep up with the technological curve when it comes to video games and hand eye coordination.
Google's playable Pac-Man doodle has collectively consumed about 4.8 million hours of Google's work time since its Friday release, according to a new report. "I imagine most users missed that," Wright suggested. "In fact, I'd wager that 75 percent of the people who saw the logo had no idea that you could actually play it. Which the world should be thankful for." I happened to be in the percentage who had no idea the Google Pac-Man doodle could actually be played. Guess it was a complete waste of Google productivity and money.
02/12/2010 to 02/28/2010 The Olympic Games started, so did the Olympic Doodles. We have posted these on our other website.
02/03/2010 Norman Rockwell's birthday today. Norman Rockwell was born February 3rd, 1894. This graphic name art celebration consisted of two people sitting on a bench facing the sun. Nothing too exciting but Norman Rockwell was the founder of the Saturday Evening Post.
01.18.2010 Martin Luther King Jr. day is a holiday celebrating the Reverand's birthday. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, "I have a dream..." speech is one of the most famous speeches in history. This black and white doodle image features Martin Luther King Jr.'s march on Washington. I have been to many states across the U.S. and many of them have a Martin Luther King Boulevard in remembrance of Rev. King.
01.04.2009 I initially was not going to comment on the Google doodle for Sir Isaac Newton's birthday. I then realized how this one was different and because one of the berries on the tree limb falls off of the logo and bounces at the bottom of the screen, of the Google homepage. Because Google used a script to make the berry fall off the tree, I cannot duplicate it to appear on this webpage. If they had used an animated gif file, it would have constrained the actions of the falling berry within the boundary limitatioins of the image itself. So they used a script to allow the berry to fall to the bottom of the webpage. This is the best Google Doodle that I have seen. As I pointed out in an earlier post, Google generally uses non-animated gif files for their logos, today their used a jpg file with the berry overlayed as a png file.
Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician and physicist. Sir Isaac Newton was most widely known for Newton's Laws. TNewton was born on Christmas Day in 1642. Believe it or not, many people get confused and think that, "In 1642, Columus sailed the ocean blue." Actually, in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Columbus day celebrates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, which occurred on October 12, 1492 in the Julian calendar and October 21, 1492 in the modern Gregorian calendar, as an official holiday.
Both Chrstopher Columbus and Sir Isaac Newton, were pioneers of their time. Newton's most memorable law is: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. I would take this in its simplest form as when the berry falls off of the Google branch, the berry bounces on the bottom of the website. Anyways, thanks for the thought provoking history lesson today, Google.
1.01.2010 New Year's Doodle featuring a clock striking midnight, fireworks, and the moon in the night sky.
2009 Google Doodles.
A Year's End.
12.25.2009 Merry Christmas to space? What the fuck does a space ship, a peace sign made of stars, the moon, and the sun on a postcard have to do with Christmas? Yeah, I am not sure either. This was the final Google holiday doodle of the week. A complete disappointment. I suppose that was to notate peace on Earth. I could have thought of a million other potential doodles that were better than this one. Oh well, this will probably be the last doodle of 2009. I don't expect any others until the New Year. Hopefully they will put their thinking caps back on.
12.24.2009 The above image appears with the ALT text of "Happy Holidays from Google!". The latest postcard has fireworks over what appears to be the desert? There will be at least one more doodle tomorrow.
12.23.2009 The above image appears with the ALT text of "Happy Holidays from Google!". Clicking the image takes you to Google's holiday logo page, where they started rolling out the holiday doodles. This doodle was the third of at least 4 doodles. Today's is a photo of what looks like a gingerbread house, a volcano, a boat and a dock on the water. Each photo in the series is a postcard. The snow man's hat replaces part of the 'g' the dock and rowboat replaces the 'o' and 'o' and the gingerbread house replaces the 'g' and the palm tree replaces the 'l' in Google. You can see the reflection of the gingerbread house in the lake water and ice capped mountains in the background.
12.22.2009 The above image appears with the ALT text of "Happy Holidays from Google!". Clicking the image takes you to Google's holiday logo page, where they started rolling out the holiday doodles. This doodle was the second of at least 3 doodles, though I think they will keep adding them until Christmas, and maybe through the New Year. Maybe Google will portray Hanukkah in a Google Doodle. Keep checking in for details. The snowmen replace part of the 'g' and the 'o' and 'o'. The oasis replaces the 'g' and the palm tree replaces the 'l' still.
12.21.2009 The above Google Doodle appears with the ALT text of "Happy Holidays from Google.". Clicking the image takes you to Google's holiday logo page, where they started rolling out the holiday doodles. The irony is that Hanukkah started on December 11, 2009 and Google did not portray Hanukkah in a Google Doodle. Could Google be anti-semitic? The sun replaces the 'o' and the oasis replaces the 'g' and the palm tree replaces the 'l'.
12.15.2009 150th birthday of L. L. Zamenhof. Esperanto the universal language that virtually no one uses. I guess Google wanted everyone to learn a useless fact today. Why waste web space showing the Esperanto Flag. Go Google it.
12.08.2009 Today is the 115th anniversary of E. C. Segar's birthday, the creator of Popeye The Sailor Man. It has been ages since I have seen any Popeye cartoons. Maybe tomorrow will be a tribute to Olive Oyl?
11.26.2009 Thanksgiving Day. The letters are all golden brown with a single 'o' that is yellow upon which the turkey sits in front of. They decided to pimp out the design with a pie, turkey, salt and pepper shakers, Snoopy, Woodstock, and a few cooking utensils. Happy Thanksgiving.
11.13.2009 It is Friday the 13th, but instead of a Freaky Friday drawing, Google decided to honor the discovery of water on the moon with this Google doodle. The outline of the word Google consists of a custom proprietary water font with the moon replacing one of the o's in the word.
11.11.09 In celebration of Veteran's Day this doodle salutes the hard working soldiers of our country. I am not really sure what the tiny teddy bear in the bottom right corner has to do with anything.
11.04.09 - 11.10.09 Google decided to make a week long celebration of Sesame Street's 40th anniversary In this series of Google Doodles.
10.31.2009 Halloween Doodle. The title for the image is "click or treat". Very basic and simple the logo has a piece of candy that replaced the 'e' in Google. I decided to click on the logo and then it changed!
After clicking the logo, the rest of the letter changed to candy. Cute. So I clicked the logo again and...
More candy cluttered the image. Well it was time to click or treat a third time...
All of the candy disappeared and was replaced with the candy wrappers. When you clicked the fourth image, it took you to a Google search for "Halloween". Google's creative idea and thinking outside the box is just another example of why Google is the leading search engine on the Internet.
10.07.2009 Google's Doodle of a bar code in celebration of the 57th anniversary of the bar code invention.
10.02.2009 Today's doodle was in celebration of the 140th birthday of Mohandas Gandhi. This was definitely creativity at its best using Ghandi's head in place of the G in Google.
09.27.2009 Google's 11th birthday.
09.21.2009 H. G. Welles 143rd birthday.
09.15.2009 UFO crop circles spell the word Google.
09.05.2009 UFO hijacking the O in Google
08.29.2009 Today's image replaced the two O's in Google with a drawing of Michael Jackson's feet. Today would have been Michael Jackson's birthday.
08.14.2009 Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who is most widely known for observing that electric currents induce magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism.
08.12.2009 Today's Google name art graphic is Google's name in the sky with the Perseid Meteor Shower appearing throughout their name. The Perseids, is the name of a prolific meteor shower whose name's origin came because the point the shower appears to come from, called the radiant, lies in the constellation Perseus. The word Perseides is a term found in Greek mythology that refers to the descendants of Perseus. The stream of meteors is called the Perseid cloud. The Perseid cloud stretches along the orbit of the comet Swift-Tuttle. The cloud consists of particles ejected by the comet as it travels on its 130-year orbit. The Perseid cloud is approximately a thousand years old. However, there is also a much younger filament of dust in the stream that was pulled off the comet in 1862. The rate of meteors originating from this filament is much higher than for the older part of the stream. The Perseid meteor shower has been observed for around 2000 years.
The shower is visible in the summer, usually beginning around mid-July each year. The peak of activity occurs between August 9 and 14, depending on the particular location of the stream. The rate of meteors can be 60 or more per hour, during the peak of the activity. They can be viewed throughout the sky, but because of the Swift-Tuttle's orbit, the shower is primarily visible in the northern hemisphere.
Like all meteor showers, the activity is most prevalent in the pre-dawn hours, because the side of the Earth nearest to the sun scoops up more meteors as the Earth moves in orbit. In 2009, the peak will be about 120 meteors per hour, but fainter meteors will be washed out by a waning gibbous moon.
Source: Wikipedia.
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