Beethoven’s Google Doodle

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Marco Barnig

To celebrate Ludwig van Beethoven’s 245th Year, Google created an interactive doodle to help Beethoven arranging his masterpieces during his unfortunate journey to the symphony hall. Produced by Gregory Capuano and designed by Leon Hong, the Google engineers Jordan Thompson, Jonathan Shneier, Kris Hom and Charlie Gordon programmed a new masterpiece of animation. The Piano recordings have been done by Tim Shneier. Nate Swinehart was responsible for animatics and additional art.

The following figures show some key scenes from the interactive animation.

beethoven_1 beethoven_2 beethoven_4 beethoven_5 beethoven_6 beethoven_7 beethoven_7a beethoven_8 beethoven_9 beethoven_10 beethoven_10a beethoven_11 beethoven_12 beethoven_13 beethoven_14 beethoven_15 beethoven_16 beethoven_17 beethoven_18 beethoven_19 beethoven_20

Google Doodle : Joyeux Anniversaire

Posted on January 29, 2015 by Marco Barnig

Aujourd’hui, en ouvrant mon navigateur, j’ai découvert le Google Doodle suivant pour me souhaiter un joyeux anniversaire.

Google Doodle : Happy Birthday Marco

Merci à Google.

Alan Turing and Robert Moog Google Doodles

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Marco Barnig

To celebrate Robert Moog’s 78th Birthday, Google published on May 23, 2012 an interactive doodle of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer.

Google Doodle : Moog Synthesizer

The doodle was synthesized from a number of smaller components to form a unique instrument. When experienced with browsers supporting the Web Audio API, the sound is generated natively. For other browsers the Flash plugin is used. The doodle takes advantage of JavaScript, Closure libraries, CSS3 and tools like Google Web Fonts, the Google+ API, the Google URL Shortener and App Engine.

The Moog doodle was created by Google engineers Reinaldo Aguiar and Rui Lopes and the doodle team lead Ryan Germick.

For Alan Turing’s Centennial, Google published one month later (June 23, 2012) an interactive doodle showing a Turing Machine. The doodle was designed by Jered Wierzbicki and Corrie Scalisi, Software Engineers, and by Doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino. The code for this doodle was open sourced and is available at Google Code.

Google Doodle : Turing Machine

A video about the Art & Technology behind Google Doodles is available at Youtube.

Google Doodles – how do they do ?

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Marco Barnig

Last update : May 1, 2013

Neli S Gautham Raj [Linuxtree ] and M. Jeyaganesh [Cybergyaan ] created the website devlup, a community of young web developers, programmers and social media enthusiasts.

They published a series of tutorials about the programming of the interactive Google Doodles :

Other great contributions on the websites of the authors are :

How to create facebook application using PHP and graph api
History of WordPress
10 Supercool ways to visualize internet
6 ways to create live streaming videos

Another developer interested in Google Doodles is Alvaro Montoro who created the jquery plugin imageCloud, based on the Christmas 2010 Google Doodle.

Doodle 4 Google

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Marco Barnig

Last update : May 1, 2013

Google Doodle by Makenzie Melton (winner 2010)

A Google “doodle” is the decoration Google makes to their logo every so often. Over the years doodles have become one of the most beloved parts of Google. Google doodles have been produced to celebrate several noted artists and scientists.

Today, Google announced the winners of the Doodle 4 Google, the second competition where children and students have been invited to work their artistic will upon the Google homepage logo. The national winner is Makenzie Melton from El Dorado Springs, Missouri. She is 9 years old.

On the same website, Google presents the history of doodles (the Google logos), the team of designers behind the doodles and an archive of all their event, holiday, official and fan logos.

Google’s 2010 Christmas doodle has 17 interactive images that approximate the logo’s letters and colors. Read the story about the creation of this interactive artworks : 5 Artists, 250 hours, 6 months.

Christmas 2010 interactive Google Doodle

A tutorial how to program the Christmas 2010 Doodle effect has been published by Martin Angelov on the Tutorialzine website.

A Greasemonkey script allows you to put your favorite Google Doodles as a constant image on your Google Search homepage. Another link to install your favorite doodle is available at the Chrome webstore.

Google Logos Collection and Google Paintings

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Marco Barnig

Last update : August 10, 2015

Google displayed this logo across all its home pages celebrating Earth Day on April 22, 2008.

Earthday

Ten years earlier, when Google was in beta stage they used this logo. In the meantime Google designed several hundred different logos and doodles.

Google Logo

My favorite design is the logo celebrating Joan Miró’s birthday on April 20th, 2006.

Miro Google Doodle

A Joan Miró page, presenting Miró’s bio, over 210 of his works, exclusive articles, as well as up-to-date Miró exhibition listings, is provided by Artsy.net. The mission of Artsy.net is to make all of the world’s art accessible to anyone online.

In the past there were different sites on the web featuring google art, for example the website Google Logos Collection, with Official Google Logos and Unofficial Google Logos by Google fans, maintained by Vamsi Gangavalli. He also operated a Search Engine Optimization Forums where SEO and SEM related issues were discussed.

Valéry Grancher, a french artist graduated by the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts de Paris on 1995, focused on Google oil paintings.

Painting

He was represented by the Lincart Gallery in San Francisco. In 2004, Valérie Grancher published a limited edition of 250 numbered copies of his book “Web Drawings” at Onestar Press.

A nice blog about google issues (Googlified : Everything Google) was run up to a few years ago by Haochi Chen and a few friends he met on the Net.

Google launched a permanent home for all Google logos (Doodles) on their website at www.google.com/doodles/. The Google Official Logos are Copyright to Google and the images were removed from all the fan web sites.

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