The Google Doodlers
You have to give credit to this guy that keep coming up with the exceptional Google doodles. He's designed over 150 of the Google doodles and posts on the Google Blog.
My name is Dennis Whang, and I'm the guy who draws the Google doodles. But the doodle tradition started here before I did. The first doodle was produced by (who else?) Larry and Sergey, who, when they attended the Burning Man festival in summer 1999, put a little stick figure on the home page logo in case the site crashed and someone wanted to know why nobody was answering the phone.
He said that when a user writes in to suggest that they honor the once-every-122-years Transit of Venus on the Google home page, they actually do it! He invites anyone with an idea for new doodles to send them in.
In other news, a London schoolgirl has beaten hundreds of rivals in a competition to create a doodle for Google's U.K. Web site. Lisa Wainaina, aged 11, triumphed with her drawing called "The Day of the Child." As a reward, she received an upper case "G" of frosted glass, and her school won an interactive whiteboard.
This particular image was created by Dennis for the Persian New Year - March 21, 2006.
Ian Marsden was the first cartoonist designer back in the year 2000 to create several
series of humorous logo modifications of the Google logo. This image is from the collection for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games - Sydney Australia.
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