How the Google Doodles (logos) are Made and by Who?
Here is the blog post of Dennis Hwang about Doodles;
My name is Dennis, 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. By the time I began an internship here in the summer of 2000, the company was producing doodles on a regular basis. At the time I was a Stanford undergrad majoring in art and computer science, and, although I hadn’t been hired to do anything remotely related to logo design, I eventually stumbled into my first doodle gig (Bastille Day, July 2000, for which I did a fairly boring flag motif).
And I’ve done all the doodles ever since; I’ve produced almost 150 by now. The doodles are only a small part of my actual job (as Google’s international webmaster, I’m responsible for managing all our international site content, which keeps me plenty busy), but it’s definitely my favorite. Holding up my mockups and then holding my breath while Larry and Sergey do their “thumbs-up, thumbs-down” emperor thing is never boring, and I love the fact that my little niche within this company turned out to be something so cool and creative and, well, Google-y.
What doodles will I be doing next? Well, telling you in advance would spoil the fun of it, and I have no idea anyway. If you’ve got any ideas of your own, feel free to send them in. Who knows; you may just make a little Google history yourself.
Dennis Hwang
Give Up Internet’s Note: Also you can design and send your own doodles to Google from this url.