So what’s special about Saturday 19th February 2011? Well it’s the 135th birthday of Constantin Brancusi of course and like many great figures from history he has become the latest to receive Google’s top honour – his very own Google Doodle. The Constantin Brancusi Doodle Today’s Doodle showcases some of the different sculptures Brancusi created, as a fitting...
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It’s that time again, Google Doodles seem to be taking over cyberspace as after yesterday’s Valentines inspired logo the big G has honoured Ernest Shackleton, one of the very first western explorers to visit and document the South Pole – one of the harshest climates in the world. Anglo-Irish explorer Ernest Shackleton shot to stardom after his epic mission on Endurance,...
The last week has been a real hot bed of activity on the Google Doodle front, first the big G paid tribute to Jules Verne and a couple of days later a similar tribute was paid to the most famous inventor of all time – Thomas Edison. Today it is no surprise to see the famous and colourful Google logo replaced with a valentine’s day Doodle. Unlike the Edison Doodle todays...
Today is Thomas Alva Edison’s 164th Birthday and to mark the occasion Google has created a brand new Doodle. The Doodle shows some of Edison’s most famous inventions which has been animated using a series of 22 jpg images. The Doodle shows a blinking light bulb in the place of the letter L, the incandescent light bulb was one of Edison’s most important inventions...
Google users will logon today to reveal a brand new Doodle celebrating the life and work of Jules Verne, a French author who is widely regarded as being the father of Science Fiction. His book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea was penned in 1870 and seems to be the inspiration for today’s Google Doodle. Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8th, 1828 in Nates,...
January 19th 2011 is the 172nd birthday of famous artist Paul Cézanne, the master artist who specialized in still life paintings. The Google Doodle team has been busy knocking together a tribute to the great man which is why a still life befitting his work has replaced the standard Google logo today. Like previous doodles the ‘painting’ based logo mimics the shape...
2010 is officially over and to celebrate Google has provided a brand new Doodle featuring the Roman numerals MMXI – translated this means 2011. The numerals are surrounded by fireworks much like the ones seen in Sydney, London and New York. The Doodle is the last of 2010 and indeed the first of 2011; we hope this year will be as fruitful as last year’s graphical offerings. 2010...
You may have noticed that today’s Google Doodle is celebrating the life and work of Jane Austen, born on 16th December 1775. Austen is known for a large variety of famous works including, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility and perhaps most of all for Pride and Prejudice. Today’s Google Doodle depicts a country scene with two suitably dressed individuals, one lady...
Google has announced that their popular ‘Doodles’ will soon be available on various smartphones and mobile operating systems. The very first Google Doodle was way back in 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page put the Doodle up to show they were at the Burning Man festival – look how far it’s come since then. There have been a few Doodles in the past that have featured...
The Google doodle is becoming quite a common feature on the world’s biggest search engine and I for one enjoy waking up to see a fresh new logo on the Google homepage. Saturday 13th November saw the big G celebrate the 160th birthday of Robert Louis Steven Stevenson. Stevenson is the genius writer who penned classic stories such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and...