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Rembrandt Doodle

Google honors Rembrandt van Rijn – one of the most famous painters in European art history – with a nice doodle. It shows a famous self-portrait of Rembrandt (painted 1659) in front of a copperplate. This is because Rembrandt is also very famous for his etchings. The athmosphere of the doodle is typically for Rembrandt: warm and harmfull. Very nice doodle… Read on »

Franz Kafka doodle

Google honors Franz Kafka with a scary vermin doodle. It is inspired by Kafkas famous novel „The Metamorphosis“ (German: Die Verwandlung). Some morning the traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, awaks and find himself transformed into a monstrous vermin. Horror pure… The doodle illustrates it in a humorous way. Franz Kafka was born on July 3rd, 1883 – 130 years ago. Franz Kafka was a Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. He strongly influenced genres such as existentialism. Read on »

Tour de France doodle

This year starts the 100th Tour de France, the strongest bicycle race worldwide. Google celebrates the Tour with a nice animated doodle on the homepage. The Tour-doodle looks like an old fashined print. Two bicycle rides pedal on the metal horses. On the right side is shown the map of france. On the left stands in old letters „La centième“ („the one hundredth [tour]„). Nice – but after Lance Amstrong told us that it is impossible to win the tour without doping I am not sure what to think about it … Read on »

Antoni Gaudí Doodle

Antoni Gaudí was a spanish architect. He was born on June 25th, 1852. Today it’s would be his 161th birthday. Google honors this excellent archtect with a nice doodle on the homepage. Antoni Gaudí was born in Catalani, a region of Spain.  Antoni Gaudí had three big passions: architecture, nature, religion. His work was influenced by many factors. e.g. neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques. When I saw the doodle the first time I thought on african culture. Read on »

Summer stolcice 2013 Doodle

On June 21st is summer solstice – the longest day of the year. In the northern hemisphere, the astronomical summer begins. Google celebrates the first day of summer 2013 with a great doodle. It’s a double-doodle or twin-doodle, two sides of a doodle-coin, because in the countries of the southern hemisphere Google celebrates „beginning of winter“. While with us six dry people  with Google-colored bathing caps are overwhelmed by waves, a giant glove is knitted in the southern hemisphere. Read on »

First Day of Winter 2013 (doodle)

On June 21st it’s „Winter Solstice“. You can call it in simple words: First Day of Winter 2013. That is the the time at which the sun appears at noon at its lowest altitude above the horizon. On the southern hemisphere the winter begins now – officially. On the northern hemisphere the summer begins. The amazing animated doodle shows a hands knitting a scarf. It’s designed by german artist Christoph Niemann. Christoph Niemann is an illustrator, graphic designer, and author of several books including some children’s books. Very nice doodle.  Read on »

Father’s Day 2013 Doodle

Google celebrates Father’s day with a nive doodle: it’s a kind of „what men like“ slotmachine. It’s June 16th , 2013 (3rd Sunday of June) and and these countries celebrate Father’s Day on the Google homepage: Canada, Turkey, Qatar, Czech Republic, Kuwait, Panama, Costa Rica, Slovakia, Ireland, Nigeria, Venezuela, Argentina, Ecuador, Ghana, Brunei, Singapore, China, Chile, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Netherlands, Uganda, Oman, United States, Kenya, Mexico, Tunisia, South Africa, Peru, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Senegal, Colombia, Greece, Paraguay, Japan, Cyprus. Read on »

Maurice Sendak Doodle

Google honors Maurice Sendak with an nice animated doodle. He was born on June 10, 1928 – 85 years ago. Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American illustrator and writer of children’s books. He is best known for his book „Where the Wild Things Are“, first published in 1963. The book’s depictions of fanged monsters concerned some parents, as his characters were somewhat grotesque in appearance. Sendak says: „Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy.“ Read on »

Julius Richard Petri Google Doodle

Google honors the German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri with an amazing doodle. It is a „real doodle“, that means, it shows a real process as a timelapse video. Julius Richard Petri has become famous mainly for his invention of the Petri dish. That are small vitreous dishes made of glas. The Doodle shows six bacterial cultures growing in the form of the Google letters. Funny idea for an extraordinary logo-animation … Read on »

Douglas Adams Doodle (Don’t Panic)

The answer to all questions ist … Everybody knows it – but did you know who gave the answer? It was Douglas Adams who wrote the novel „The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy„. Douglas Adams was born on 11 March 1952. Google celebrates his 61st birthday with an interacive funny doodle. Doug Adams was an English writer, humorist and dramatist. Unfortunately Adams died in 2001. The doodle illustrates some scenes of the hitchhiker-novel – you have to click „no Panic“ Button :-) Read on »