Google Doodles become increasingly intricate and popular

Google “doodles” have long been part of Google’s history and are the drawings that are often designed on, around and through Google’s logo on its home page. These doodles have attained cult status and are a combination of technology and art, created by a passionate in-house team. They illustrate the creative and innovative personality of Google and like the company, use advances in technology to demonstrate their capabilities.

The Google doodles are used to celebrate famous birthdays, anniversaries, worldwide events or holidays, specific to particular countries. There are competitions held for the best designs and some examples of these are imaginative ones designed for Albert Einstein’s birthday; and Valentine’s Day.

The idea for doodles originated in 1998, when the Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin played with the corporate logo to indicate they were “out of office”. A stick figure drawing was placed behind the 2nd “o” in the word ‘Google’ and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users. While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was well received by its users.

More recently, interactive versions such as the highly popular and humorous global one created for Jim Henson’s 75th birthday, have been created with Sprite Image technology and javascripts. Examples of how this was created can be found here or here.

There have been over 300 doodles created by the doodle team for Google.com in the United States and over 700 have been designed internationally. It’s possible to see all the doodles that have been designedhere.

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