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Gideon Sundback Doodle

Today the Google homepage shows a really funny doodle. It is an interactive zipper. The user can pull it down to see the Result page behind it. Google celebrates the 132nd birthday of the swedish inventor Gideon Sundback. He was Born on April 24th 1880. After school he went to Germany to study engineering. In 1905 the 29 aged Sundback emigrated to the United States. He married but his wife died some years later. In Dec. 1913 he „published“ his main invention: the zipper. Read on »

Robert Doisneau Doodle

The french photographer Robert Doisneau was born on April 14th 1912 – 100 years ago. Google honors this pioneer of photojounalism with a nice doodle. The doodle shows 4 photographies by Doisneau: „The tugboat“, „The three children“, „Dog on wheels“ and „The kiss“. A famous cite of Robert Doisneau is: „The marvels of daily life are so exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.“ Read on »

Eadweard J. Muybridge Doodle

Easter Monday 9the April 2012 – Google honors the pioneer of photography Eadweard James Muybridge with a nice doodle. It is an animation and you have to start it by clicking on the „Play“ Button in the center. It shows a „Galloping horse“ set to motion using single photos. 21 horses, some are colored like the google logo. Eadweard Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion. The Doodle based an an original sequence by Eadweard J. Muybridge. Looks in my eyes like an amazing piece of old fashiened pop art :-) Read on »

Juan Gris Doodle

The spanish artist Juan Gris was born 125 years ago. Google honors Gris with a nice artistic doodle. It seems to be a cubistic artwork like Juan Gris paintings. Born as José Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez in Madrid the 19 year old Juan leave Spain and went to Paris. In the beginning of the 20 century the french capital was the centre of the art-world. First he worked as illustrator. After a short while he became friend with other painters, eg. Pablo Picasso, Georg Braques or Amadeo Modigliani. Read on »

St. Patrick's Day Doodle

March 17th is traditionally St. Patrick’s Day. Nearly every year since 2000 Google celebrates this day with a doodle on the search-engine-homepage. This year the doodle designers decided to draw the doodle in a „celtic style“. Nice in my eyes. And of xourse the main color is green. Green as the wide irish grasslands. As allways I made a video to document this amazing doodle – including the St. Patrick’s Day-doodles from 2000 to 2011. Read on »

Akira Yoshizawa Doodle

Akira Yoshizawa was born an March 14th, 1911. He is called the „grandmaster“ of origami. Google honors Akira Yoshizawa with an amazing doodle on the homepage. The Doodle was created by the Origami-Artist Robert Lang because Yoshizawa who died in 2005 never thought to build a Google-Origami. Origami (from ori meaning „folding“, and kami meaning „paper“) is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. Read on »

International Women’s Day 2012 - nice doodle

International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day, is marked on March 8 every year. Google celebrates this with a really nice doodle on the homepage – clean and simple, but full of live. The Google blue changes into a „female purple“. The first „G“ shows the female symbol – and the second „on“ is a growing flower. The first national Women’s Day was observed on 28 February 1909 in the United States following a declaration by the Socialist Party of America. Read on »

Gioachino Rossini doodle

Google honors the italian composer Gioachino Rossini with a funny frog-doodle. Rossini was born 220 years ago, on 29th february 1792. This year is a leap year. And because frog leap Google used to show frogs to symbolize the leap year. So the Google designers decide to celbrate both. And the combine the frogs with a scene of the famous Rossini opera „The Barber of Seville“. Read on »

Nicolas Steno doodle

Google honors Nicolas Steno with an amazing doodle. Nicolas Steno was a Danish pioneer in both anatomy and geology. He was born 1638 as Niels Stensen in Copenhagen (374 years ago). By 1659 he had decided not to accept anything simply written in a book, resolving instead to do research himself. The doodle shows a sedimentary landscape.  Some fossils are buried in the rock. It is an amazing doodle – looks like the Google designer has dig it up sedimentary layers. Read on »

Charles Addams doodle

Google honors the American cartoonist Charles Addams with a „horror“ doodle. Charles Addams was known for his black humor and macabre characters. Since 1932 his Cartoons regularly appeared in The New Yorker, a famous american magazin. In 1938 his first „Addams family“ chacters were published, but without any names. Read on »