Well there are many people who contribute to placing the little pieces of art that you see when you ‘Google ‘ something.. on Googles home page.. And heres the story behind it all..
The Google doodle was first created in 1998, when the Google founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin went to the ‘Burning Man Festival’, and scribbled a stick figure into the Google logo as a type of ‘ out of office ‘ communication. It has become since then, an institution of the Google home page. For example, the ( moving, i.e. animated ) Loch Ness monster , doodle, created to celebrate the 81 years since the ‘famous’ photograph of the Loch Ness monster ( real or faked ? the viewer can choose their opinion ) was just one of the doodles, which sometimes reflect current events, famous people, or are just for fun.. The artist who created the ‘Nessie’ doodle is Matthew Cruickshank and he is one of a team of only ten people who create them. In a statement he says “The fact that it’s a doodle means it’s fun and shouldn’t be taken too seriously” Stretching the definition of doodle somewhat.. it actually takes the teams members 6 weeks to create a new doodle, from deciding on the concept to launching it online, and can be planned up to 6 or 8 months in advance.. This goes to show that there is more to the concept of a ‘doodle’ than you would sometimes think……..
