The Creator Google Logos: Dennis Hwang
All those beautiful doodles that show up at Google home page on festivals and special occasions are made by Dennis Hwang, a webmaster from Google team.
In 1998, when the company was founded, Sergey Brin created a basic logo using open source image editor GIMP. It remained standard logo for a long time. During Burning Man Festival of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin designed the first doodle in order to notify users of their absence. Since then, Dennis Hwang was assigned to create Google logos.
Dennis Hwang, born in Tennessee (USA) moved to Gwacheon (South Korea) when he was five years old. He came back to US for his graduation when his father received research scholarship in the United States. He joined Google as intern student in 2000 and later become international webmaster and was responsible for managing international site content. He holds degree from Stanford in arts and computer science.
Knowing the fact that Dennis also had his majors in arts, Larry Page and Sergey Brin asked him to come up with the doodle for Bastille Day in 2000. Since then he is incharge for drawing doodles for festivals, birthdays, Olympics, independence days and national holidays.
After lot of research, brainstorming and search for images on Google, Dennis Hwang sketches the subject in combination with letters of Google. He uses digital tablet and software’s like Painter or Photoshop to transform ideas into art. His favourite characters are O and L which can be manipulated easily. He finds G the most difficult to deal with, and gives little attention to E because of its location.
Interestingly, drawing doodles makes only 10 percent of his job. His main responsibility in company is to manage content as an international webmaster. Some designs take only few hours to complete while others take much time due to their importance.
His favorite doodles are mainly artists’ birthdays like Magritte’s and universal appealing Olympics 2008 Google logos.
You can have look at Dennis tips for designing doodle and samples at here and here or check out how he draws these doodles here :
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It’s a shame just that Google Doodles “Fun” Calendar is not updated anymore, but it’s still listed in Google Calendar public calendars list.
Abhishek, a very interesting news and informative. Thanks!
Its realy pleasure to found some one who is in the same industry like as my big brother
Love uo Dennis Hwang
my site
thanks to dannis
how about a google doodle for 9/11…a flag..or something?
@suzette
You are absolutely right. Unfortunately there wasn’t any doodle for 9-11 , though Bing and Ask.com have changed their home page in remembrance.
Hi, it is St Georges day today why isn’t there a google logo for this patriotic day like there is for every other occasion?
What about Samuel Morse, April 27? Talk about a mix of design and geekdom!
Does Dennis Hwang still work for Google?
As of today, it appears there are no more fun Google logos, or the interesting factoids that went with them. Looks like all we get on the frontpage of Google now is a large photograph, without any context…
It looks like Google had a temporary fit of insanity – thankfully, by last night, so many people had complained that they restored the original Google logo and the page looked normal again. And this morning, a nice underwater logo was up, celebrating the 100th birthday of Jacques Cousteau.
This surely looked like a foolish move on Google’s part – hopefully this means they fired the fool who came up with that idea