| Dennis Hwang, the man behind the Google logos |
| Written by Michael Warren | |
| Friday, 18 November 2005 | |
 Seems
like the last entry about Google logos generated some interest so
here’s another set. Really, it’s more of the same (in a good way) so
there’s not much more to be said. However to keep you all stimulated
here’s an NPR interview with the man behind all of them. What a sweet
gig eh? His name is Dennis Hwang a 26 year old Stanford Fine Arts
graduate who also happened to minor in Computer Science. He started out
as an intern and is currently the international webmaster and in his
spare time he creates variants of the Google logo. There are more
details from various sources, Digital Inspiration (also includes links
to a bunch of other Google Logo resources), Toronto Star, Korean
Herald, SFGate, and JSOnline just to name a few. And just to let you
know, there is a chance of your very own Google logo featured on the
popular search engine, it just doesn’t happen that often. How did this
all get started?Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the company’s founders, had been experimenting with revisions to the Google logo for special events (in 1999, the first time they tried it, they added a “burning man” to the logo to let pals know they’d be at the Burning Man festival in Nevada for a few days). But Page and Brin were unhappy with the quality of the drawings they were getting from a freelancer. On one occasion, they asked Hwang, knowing that he was an art major, to redraw one of the submissions. He did it and it was exactly what they were looking for. Read More »
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