Monday, October 11, 2010

Google Designs

There is officially no doubt about it—Google has become apart of our society.  When there’s an argument that needs to be settled among friends, what do you do?  Google it.  It never fails to be right.  But even in a design sense, Google always seems to throw in as much creativity whenever possible.  For example, every possible holiday in the world, Google redesigns its logo to help make it more festive, and it is very clear that the designers of Google are always busy and seemingly coming up with new and inventive things.  These are some of the “holiday” designs I came across:

Happy New Years:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahhyeah/424366315/









Happy Halloween:
http://www.logodesign.com/logo_design/2005/12/20/
google-holiday-logos-jonathan-munk/











Pi Day:
http://matwolf.com/blog/category/logo-design/

And even this “Happy 50th Anniversary, Flinstones!” 
http://matwolf.com/blog/category/logo-design/











While these are all very interesting and creative, this past week, Google threw out a new and even more inventive one.  On October 8th, 2010, Google celebrated John Lennon’s 70th Birthday Anniversary with this particular Google design that was the first of its kind (as far as I have ever noticed):

http://www.dotsperiod.com/1350/john-lennon-
birthday-in-google-doodle-john-lennon-quotes-to-live-by/

At first glance I agreed it was definitely creative, but quite honestly that is the same thought I have for practically all of them.  But then I notice the small play button looking triangle… and sure enough, the Google logo transformed into this video:




Maybe I’ve just been missing these interactive Google designs, but I was definitely impressed by this one. And to all the Google designers, this one really seemed to take its dedication to John Lennon to a whole new level. 

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