Don't they just make your day? I love when I open the search browser and there's a lovely image that leaves me guessing for what the special anniversary of the day is - a deceased artist's birthday? A creative picture of a holiday or fun games - who didn't waste at least one billable hour on the
Pac Man one?! Google started creating these in 2000 with very simple festive designs for New Year's, Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's and Day, Groundhog's Day. They became more intuitive in 2002 with the Olympic Games and featured their first artist, Piet Mondrian, with his classic primary color block style featured in the Google letters. They really started making it zesty in 2003 when they carved the David in the Google logo for remembrance of his birthday and they've continued to feature creatively designed logos almost every day of the year. The Persian New Year logos are always beautiful. Bravo to Google for this daily history lesson and snippet of entertainment!
It's super fun to browse the archive of Google "logos" as they call them. Check them out here:
http://www.google.com/logos/
These are some of my favorites:
Vincent Van Gogh's birthday
Frank Llyod Wright's birthday
Louis Braille's birthday
Earth Day
April Fools Day (MR's birthday!)
First day of Spring by Eric Carle (one of my favorite childhood author/illustrators!)
Mother's Day
Josef Frank's 125th birthday
76th birthday of Roger Hargreaves
Earth Day
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