List of Google Doodles in 2011
Encyclopedia
The Google Doodle is an artistic version of the Google
logo
. The year 2011 saw an increase in the number of more intricate Google Doodles being made. Google Doodle represent events like holidays, anniversaries, or current events. On the 27 September 2011, Google also celebrated its 13th Birthday with a doodle.
All Google doodles are available at: http://www.google.com/logos/index.html
, with Kennedy's bust in place of the lowercase "g," was placed on the Google home page to honor the 50th anniversary of his inauguration.
.
On Tuesday, February 8, 2011, to celebrate the 183rd birthday of science fiction author Jules Verne
. The doodle featured an ocean scene viewed through the portholes of a submarine
, which iPad
and iPhone
users can watch the water level move in any direction they wish.
On Friday, February 11, 2011, to celebrate the 164th birthday of Thomas Edison
, the letters were changed to line drawings of a few of Edison's inventions, including a flickering lightbulb
as the letter L
.
On Monday, February 14, 2011, the Google logo was redesigned in the style of the Love sculpture
, moving away from the traditional Catull
font for a day. When the mouse cursor is hovered over the design, a message says' Happy Valentine's Day from Google and Robert Indiana
'.
On Saturday, February 19, 2011, the Google logo was a selection of major works of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi
to celebrate his 135th birthday.
On Sunday, March 6, 2011, the Google logo was a selection Will Eisner's works, moving away from the tradition Catull font and the traditional blue, red, orange, and green colors for a day.
On Monday, March 7, 2011, Google Germany ran a logo in honor of the 40th anniversary of Die Sendung mit der Maus
, an award-winning children's program.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, the Google logo was modified to celebrate International Women's Day with portraits of women featured as the "g", the "l", and the "e".
On Saturday, March 12, 2011, Google Hong Kong and Google Taiwan modified the Google logo by adding in trees to celebrate Arbor Day
.
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Google Thailand replaced the "g" in the logo with an elephant to celebrate National Elephant Day.
On Monday, March 14, 2011, modified the Google logo to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the movie Alam Ara
, the first Indian movie with sound.
On Tuesday, March 15, 2011, Google Hungary changed the Google logo to celebrate the anniversary Hungary's 1848 revolution.
On Thursday, March 17, 2011, Google Ireland modified the logo to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Also, on that day, Google Italy changed the Google logo to celebrate 150 years of the Unification of Italy. Also Google celebrated the birthday of Egyptian composer Sayed Darwish
who was born on March 17, 1892
On Saturday, March 19, 2011, modified the logo into a multi-colored one to celebrate the Indian festival of Holi
.
On Thursday, March 24, 2011, Google changed their logo to celebrate the 137th birthday of Harry Houdini
, the famed Hungarian-born American magician, stunt performer and escapologist. The Harry Houdini "Google doodle" was the first to appear after Google received "a curious new patent up its sleeve": the "System and Method For Enticing Users To A Web Site," as approved by the US patent office.
On Friday, March 25, 2011, to celebrate the 400th birthday of Evliya Çelebi
, Google Turkey changed the logo into a portrait featuring Evliya Çelebi and his horse.
On Thursday, March 31, 2011, to celebrate the 200th birthday of Robert Bunsen
, the logo was changed to several chemistry-related apparatuses, including a Bunsen burner
, a test tube
and a round-bottom flask
, removing the Catull font for a day. This animated doodle was also interactive, with the user's mouse varying the color of the flickering flame on the eponymous burner via horizontal movement, and controlling flame height via vertical movement. Flame height in turn controlled the boiling of liquids, simmering of a tea kettle, movement of liquids through the apparatus, and resultant mixing of the liquids. The interactive animation only works on several browsers and builds, but not others.
sundae
, replacing the Catull font with the Paramount logo font and removing the blue, red, orange and green colors for a day. The two "o"s were also replaced with two scoops of ice cream sitting in a cup.
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, Google Italy changed the logo on Italy Culture Week. An Italian castle replaces the G and L.
On Sunday, April 10, 2011, the logo was changed for the Peruvian elections in Peru. The second "o" was a square crossed out.
On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, the logo was changed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight and orbit
by Russian
cosmonaut
, Yuri Gagarin
, replacing the Catull
font with a Cyrillic-style
font for a day. The logo was in the style of a Soviet
poster and featured an animated rocket blasting from the Earth. The two O's were the Earth and Gagarin's face, which could be seen looking up to the stars.
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the logo was changed for the 240th birthday of Richard Trevithick
. It was made into an early steam train with the first G and the two O's as cogs, the second G as a boiler plate and the L and E as steam pipes.
On Friday, April 15, 2011, a video was featured on the Google's homepage starring members of Google Doodle team enacting a Google-themed scene, honoring the filmmaker and actor, Charlie Chaplin
on his 122nd birthday, replacing the Catull font with the font for the New York Times logo for two days. This doodle remained live on Saturday, April 16, 2011.
On Monday, April 18, 2011, the logo was changed for the 129th birthday of Monteiro Lobato
. G and L are replaced by two of his creations: Emilia and Visconde de Sabugosa.
On Friday, April 22, 2011, the logo was changed for the 41st anniversary of Earth Day
, an initiative by US Senator
Gaylord Nelson
to inspire awareness for the Earth
's natural environment. The logo featured a moving stream and waterfall and numerous types of trees and animals, including penguin
s on an iceberg, pandas
eating bamboo sticks, a lion
dozing, a frog
, a bird
, a salmon
leaping up the waterfall and a bear
catching the salmon. By hovering the mouse cursor over the animals, the animals can be animated.
On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Google UK added a knight and a horse to the left of the logo to celebrate St George's Day
. Also, a dragon's tail was added, covering half of the Google logo.
On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Google changed the logo to celebrate the 226th birthday of John James Audubon
, a naturalist
, ornithologist
and painter
. The letters were made up from birds and tree branches, drawn in Audubon's style like in his book Birds of America
.
On Friday, April 29, 2011 Google changed the logo to celebrate the wedding
of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. This doodle remained live until 9:00 PM on that day.
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On Sunday, May 8, 2011, Google changed the logo to celebrate Mother's Day
by replacing the 'l' with a purple flower and turning the entire logo purple. Also, the Catull font has been replaced with the Courier New font and the blue, red, orange and green colors have been removed for a day.
On Monday, May 9, 2011, Google celebrated the 76th birthday of Roger Hargreaves
, author of the Mr. Men and Little Miss series
, by randomly displaying one of 16 different logos featuring the cartoonish version of the Google logo and one of Hargreaves' characters.
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Google celebrated the 117th birthday of Martha Graham
, arguably the pioneer of modern dance
. The Google logo is formed slowly by figures dancing in the style of modern dance. The logo animation was created by Ryan Woodward in collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company.
, author of the Busytown series
.
On Thursday, June 9, 2011, Google celebrated the 96th birthday of the late jazz and country guitarist Les Paul
with an interactive guitar that can be played, and includes the ability to record and playback. One plays the guitar by using the computer's mouse, touchpad, or keyboard. This doodle remained on the main page on Friday, June 10, 2011. Like the Pac-Man doodle before it, this doodle was given a permanent home at http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html due to its popularity.
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Google made a doodle for the Total Lunar Eclipse.
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011, the Google logo was replaced by a floral doodle designed by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami
to celebrate the Summer solstice
. A winter doodle called First Day of Winter to celebrate the Winter solstice, also designed by Murakami, is displayed on the southern hemisphere.
in place of regular Google logo to accolade 450th anniversary of Saint Basil's Cathedral
in Moscow
, Russia
.
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011, the Google logo was replaced with an assortment of peas in the shape of Google logo as a tribute to Austrian botanist and monk Gregor Mendel
, the father of Genetics
on his 189th birth anniversary.
On Thursday, July 21, 2011, Google replaced its logo with a ‘mobile sculpture’ to commemorate artist Alexander Calder's
113th birthday. When viewed with certain browsers, the doodle moves on its own (rather than a static image) and would be moved by the user's mouse cursor movements.
On Saturday, July 30, 2011, Google dedicated his logo to Italian architect, painter and art historian Giorgio Vasari
, on the 500th anniversary of his birth.
100th birthday, removing the Catull font and the trademark colors for a day. Several clips of I Love Lucy
could be viewed by turning the dial on the TV.
On Sunday, August 14, 2011, Google replaced its logo with a green color, crescent and a star and minaret of Pakistan
to celebrate 65th Independence Day Of Pakistan
.
On Monday, August 15, 2011, replaced its logo with a sketch of Delhi
's Red Fort to celebrate 65th Independence Day of India
. However, graphical representation of Indian tricolor
was missing this time which was used since 2003.
On Wednesday, August 17, 2011, a doodle was made to commemorate the 410th birth anniversary of Pierre de Fermat
, the founder of the modern theory of numbers. It consists of a chalkboard
which previously has the Google logo, but most of it was erased to accommodate Fermat's Last Theorem
; only the initial G is clearly visible. The tooltip that appears when the user places their mouse pointer over the doodle ("I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain.") references the conjecture
Fermat famously made on the margin of the Arithmetica
.
On Wednesday, 24 August 2011, Google replaced its logo with a doodle to commemorate the 112th birthday of an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges
. Doodle showed Borges standing in front of a complex scenery including a large library, a complex imaginary world inspired from his poems and stories.
, lead singer of the British rock band Queen
. The logo itself was made up of cartoon portraits of Mercury with a large 'play' button on top. When pressed, a short cartoon would play to the music of Don't Stop Me Now
showing Mercury and the band playing at a stadium to a large adoring crowd. Mercury then shoots into the sky, leaps off a cloud and rides a tiger which turns into a race car that he drives into space (being an almost literal representation of the lyrics to Don't Stop Me Now). The cartoon continues with Mercury wearing a crown and cape falling onto a throne surrounded by tigers and bicycle-riding bears. There is also a homage to the famous music video for the song I Want To Break Free
, in which Mercury dressed up in drag (albeit still keeping possession of his moustache) and vacuuming a room of a house. After this is a scene of Mercury riding a bicycle into a hole and the video ends with Mercury touching back down on stage rejoining the rest of his band members as the Google logo appears on a black background behind him whilst the band, the surroundings and eventually Mercury fade away.
On Friday, 16 September 2011, Google's logo was replaced with a pair of Orange fruit
and few other fruits in background to commemorate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
on his 118th birthday, removing the Catull font and the trademark colors for a day. Szent-Gyorgyi is credited with discovering vitamin C
and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle
.
On Saturday, 17 September 2011, and replaced its logo with a comic book style doodle featuring artist the Anant Pai, to commemorate his 82nd birth anniversary. The Doodle featured Uncle Pai sitting in his office, surrounded by shelves full of his own creations. Two such pictures, one in which Uncle Pai is sitting and the other in which he is standing, form the doodle, with the writing of Google connecting the two.
On Friday, 23 September 2011, Google
replaced its logo with 6 small adaptations of Muppets
that interact via mouse, for honor of the 75th birthday of Jim Henson
, creator of the Muppets. The Muppets resemble the shape of the letters and colours that make up the Google logo. The doodle is also interactive to represent puppeteering. Pressing a button below a Muppet would activate that Muppet. Clicking the mouse would cause the muppet to open their mouth while simply moving the mouse pointer causes the muppet's head to follow it. Furthermore, further clicking or moving of the mouse pointer causes more movements: The person representing the red O would shake his head and jerk his glasses up in the air while the small red monster would "eat" the long-necked green monster (representing the E and L respectively), only for both to reemerge moments apart. This doodle remained live on Saturday, 24 September 2011.
On Tuesday, 27 September 2011, Google
replaced its logo with a picture of the words Google! in the 1998-1999 logo's font, inside a house with party hats on three of the letters, at a table with a birthday cake and presents on it, surrounded by balloons. This was to mark Google's 13th birthday.
On Wednesday, 12 October 2011, Google
replaced its logo with animated clay
humanoid
figures, including Gumby
, in honor of the 90th birthday anniversary of Art Clokey
, creator of Gumby. On the onset, the doodle is composed of five clay balls in the Google colors placed beside a toy block with a G on it. Clicking any of the balls (or even the block) reveal the Blockheads, Prickle, Goo, Gumby himself, and Pokey.
On Friday, 21 October 2011, Google replaced its logo to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Mary Blair
, who was an American artist best remembered today for work done for The Walt Disney Company
, replacing the Catull font with a 1960s-style font for a day. Doodle featured an image of an illustrator as Mary would have drawn herself, surrounded by the simplistic patterns and shapes that made up her familiar cartoon world.
On Monday, 31 October 2011, Google celebrated Halloween
with six enormous pumpkins being carved in a time-lapse video by a series of Google employees. They are joined by a variety of costumed characters, other workers, and cleaners as the video shows the progress of the pumpkin carvings interspersed with other amusing activities.
physicist–chemist Marie Curie
on her 144th birth anniversary. The doodle featured Curie, known for her pioneering research work on radioactivity, sitting among laboratory apparatus.
On Tuesday, 8 November 2011, Google UK celebrated Edmond Halley
’s 355th Birthday.
On Wednesday, 9 November 2011, Google Japan celebrated Hideyo Noguchi
’s 135th Birthday.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google Russia celebrated Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 190th Birthday.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google celebrated Hua Luogeng
’s 101th Birthday.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google celebrated Veterans Day
by turning the letters white and by adding a blue background, grassfields, and a tree with a yellow scarf to the Google logo.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google celebrated Polish Independence Day
.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google Portugal celebrated St. Martin's Day
.
On Monday, 14 November 2011, Google India celebrated Children's Day. Google had earlier announced that it would put the winning Doodle 4 Google entry on the Google India on the Children's Day. This competition was open to all students from Class I to Class X across the nation. The winning doodle featured Indian musical instruments
created by 7-year old Varsha Gupta.
On Thursday, 17 November 2011, Google celebrated Morocco Independence Day
.
On Thursday, 17 November 2011, Google Argentina celebrated Lola Mora
’s 145th Birthday.
On Friday, 18 November 2011, Google Italy celebrated Giò Pomodoro
’s 81th Birthday.
On Friday, 18 November 2011, Google's logo was depicted in a doodle featuring a family photo doodle to honor Louis Daguerre
on his 224th birthday. The French
painter
and physicist
was the inventor of daguerreotype
, the first successful form
of photography
.
On Saturday, 19 November 2011, Google celebrated Mikhail Lomonosov
’s 300th Birthday.
On Monday, 21 November 2011, Google celebrated Lebanon Independence Day
.
On Tuesday, 22 November 2011, Google celebrated Thanksgiving Day. The doodle remained active on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 and Thursday, 24 November 2011.
On Wednesday, 23 November 2011, Google celebrated the 60th anniversary of Stanislaw Lem
’s first book publication.
On Saturday, 26 November 2011, Google New Zealand's logo was depicted in a scene where the letters of Google were at a polling booth. This was for the 2011 New Zealand general election.
On Wednesday, 30 November 2011, Google replaced it's logo to commenarate the 176th anniversary of the birth of Mark Twain
. The doodle featured a full-width illustration greeting web users, which depicts a famous scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
.
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
logo
Google logo
Google has had several logos since its renaming from BackRub. The current official Google logo was designed by Ruth Kedar, and is a wordmark based on the Catull typeface....
. The year 2011 saw an increase in the number of more intricate Google Doodles being made. Google Doodle represent events like holidays, anniversaries, or current events. On the 27 September 2011, Google also celebrated its 13th Birthday with a doodle.
All Google doodles are available at: http://www.google.com/logos/index.html
January
On Thursday, January 20, 2011, a logo composed of excerpts from the inaugural speech of President John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....
, with Kennedy's bust in place of the lowercase "g," was placed on the Google home page to honor the 50th anniversary of his inauguration.
February
On Sunday, February 6, 2011, on Google Czech Republic two laughing bearded actors in Renaissance era dress replaced both G's in the logo, ostensibly to celebrate the birthday of Czech playwright Jan WerichJan Werich
Jan Werich was a Czech actor, playwright and writer.-Life:Between 1916 to 1924 he attended "reálné gymnasium" in Křemencová Street in Prague...
.
On Tuesday, February 8, 2011, to celebrate the 183rd birthday of science fiction author Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
. The doodle featured an ocean scene viewed through the portholes of a submarine
Nautilus (Verne)
The Nautilus is the fictional submarine featured in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island . Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus...
, which iPad
IPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
and iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
users can watch the water level move in any direction they wish.
On Friday, February 11, 2011, to celebrate the 164th birthday of Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial...
, the letters were changed to line drawings of a few of Edison's inventions, including a flickering lightbulb
Incandescent light bulb
The incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe makes light by heating a metal filament wire to a high temperature until it glows. The hot filament is protected from air by a glass bulb that is filled with inert gas or evacuated. In a halogen lamp, a chemical process...
as the letter L
L
Ł or ł, described in English as L with stroke, is a letter of the Polish, Kashubian, Sorbian, Łacinka , Łatynka , Wilamowicean, Navajo, Dene Suline, Inupiaq, Zuni, Hupa, and Dogrib alphabets, several proposed alphabets for the Venetian language, and the ISO 11940 romanization of the Thai alphabet...
.
On Monday, February 14, 2011, the Google logo was redesigned in the style of the Love sculpture
LOVE (Sculpture)
LOVE is a sculpture by American artist Robert Indiana. It consists of the letters LO over the letters VE.The image was originally designed as a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964...
, moving away from the traditional Catull
Catull
Catull is an old-style serif typeface designed by Gustav Jaeger for the Berthold foundry in 1982. Since May 31, 1999, Google has used the typeface for its logo. It currently costs upwards of $99.00.-External links:* at identifont....
font for a day. When the mouse cursor is hovered over the design, a message says' Happy Valentine's Day from Google and Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana is an American artist associated with the Pop Art movement.-Life and work:Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana. His family relocated to Indianapolis, where he graduated from Arsenal Technical High School...
'.
On Saturday, February 19, 2011, the Google logo was a selection of major works of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi
Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brâncuşi was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France. As a child he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris...
to celebrate his 135th birthday.
March
On Tuesday, March 1, 2011, Google UK celebrated St David's Day by adding Pilgrim clothing to the 'g' in the Google logo.On Sunday, March 6, 2011, the Google logo was a selection Will Eisner's works, moving away from the tradition Catull font and the traditional blue, red, orange, and green colors for a day.
On Monday, March 7, 2011, Google Germany ran a logo in honor of the 40th anniversary of Die Sendung mit der Maus
Die Sendung mit der Maus
Die Sendung mit der Maus is a highly acclaimed children's series on German television that has been called "the school of the nation". The show first aired on March 10, 1971...
, an award-winning children's program.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, the Google logo was modified to celebrate International Women's Day with portraits of women featured as the "g", the "l", and the "e".
On Saturday, March 12, 2011, Google Hong Kong and Google Taiwan modified the Google logo by adding in trees to celebrate Arbor Day
Arbor Day
Arbor Day is a holiday in which individuals and groups are encouraged to plant and care for trees. It originated in Nebraska City, Nebraska, United States during 1872 by J. Sterling Morton. The first Arbor Day was held on April 10, 1872, and an estimated 1 million trees were planted that day.Many...
.
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Google Thailand replaced the "g" in the logo with an elephant to celebrate National Elephant Day.
On Monday, March 14, 2011, modified the Google logo to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the movie Alam Ara
Alam Ara
Alam Ara is a 1931 film directed by Ardeshir Irani. It was the first Indian sound film.Irani recognized the importance that sound would have on the cinema, and raced to complete Alam Ara before several contemporary sound films. Alam Ara debuted at the Majestic Cinema in Mumbai on March 14, 1931...
, the first Indian movie with sound.
On Tuesday, March 15, 2011, Google Hungary changed the Google logo to celebrate the anniversary Hungary's 1848 revolution.
On Thursday, March 17, 2011, Google Ireland modified the logo to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Also, on that day, Google Italy changed the Google logo to celebrate 150 years of the Unification of Italy. Also Google celebrated the birthday of Egyptian composer Sayed Darwish
Sayed Darwish
Sayed Darwish was an Egyptian singer and composer who was considered the father of Egyptian popular music and one of their greatest musicians and their single greatest composer. He was born in Alexandria on March 17, 1892. Darwish died of a heart attack in Alexandria on September 15, 1923 . The...
who was born on March 17, 1892
On Saturday, March 19, 2011, modified the logo into a multi-colored one to celebrate the Indian festival of Holi
Holi
Holi , is a religious spring festival celebrated by Hindus. Holi is also known as festival of Colours. It is primarily observed in India, Nepal, Pakistan, and countries with large Indic diaspora populations following Hinduism, such as Suriname, Malaysia, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad, United...
.
On Thursday, March 24, 2011, Google changed their logo to celebrate the 137th birthday of Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini
Harry Houdini was a Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer noted for his sensational escape acts...
, the famed Hungarian-born American magician, stunt performer and escapologist. The Harry Houdini "Google doodle" was the first to appear after Google received "a curious new patent up its sleeve": the "System and Method For Enticing Users To A Web Site," as approved by the US patent office.
On Friday, March 25, 2011, to celebrate the 400th birthday of Evliya Çelebi
Evliya Çelebi
Evliya Çelebi was an Ottoman traveler who journeyed through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years.- Life :...
, Google Turkey changed the logo into a portrait featuring Evliya Çelebi and his horse.
On Thursday, March 31, 2011, to celebrate the 200th birthday of Robert Bunsen
Robert Bunsen
Robert Wilhelm Eberhard Bunsen was a German chemist. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium and rubidium with Gustav Kirchhoff. Bunsen developed several gas-analytical methods, was a pioneer in photochemistry, and did early work in the field of organoarsenic...
, the logo was changed to several chemistry-related apparatuses, including a Bunsen burner
Bunsen burner
A Bunsen burner, named after Robert Bunsen, is a common piece of laboratory equipment that produces a single open gas flame, which is used for heating, sterilization, and combustion.- Operation:...
, a test tube
Test tube
A test tube, also known as a culture tube or sample tube, is a common piece of laboratory glassware consisting of a finger-like length of glass or clear plastic tubing, open at the top, usually with a rounded U-shaped bottom....
and a round-bottom flask
Round-bottom flask
Round-bottom flasks are types of flasks having spherical bottoms used as laboratory glassware, mostly for chemical or biochemical work. They are typically made of glass for chemical inertness; and in modern days, they are usually made of heat-resistant borosilicate glass...
, removing the Catull font for a day. This animated doodle was also interactive, with the user's mouse varying the color of the flickering flame on the eponymous burner via horizontal movement, and controlling flame height via vertical movement. Flame height in turn controlled the boiling of liquids, simmering of a tea kettle, movement of liquids through the apparatus, and resultant mixing of the liquids. The interactive animation only works on several browsers and builds, but not others.
April
On Sunday, April 3, 2011, the logo was changed to commemorate the 119th anniversary of the first documented ice creamIce cream
Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...
sundae
Sundae
The sundae is an ice cream dessert. It typically consists of a scoop of ice cream topped with sauce or syrup, and in some cases other toppings including chopped nuts, sprinkles, whipped cream, or maraschino cherries.-History:...
, replacing the Catull font with the Paramount logo font and removing the blue, red, orange and green colors for a day. The two "o"s were also replaced with two scoops of ice cream sitting in a cup.
On Saturday, April 9, 2011, Google Italy changed the logo on Italy Culture Week. An Italian castle replaces the G and L.
On Sunday, April 10, 2011, the logo was changed for the Peruvian elections in Peru. The second "o" was a square crossed out.
On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, the logo was changed to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight and orbit
Vostok 1
Vostok 1 was the first spaceflight in the Vostok program and the first human spaceflight in history. The Vostok 3KA spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961. The flight took Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union, into space. The flight marked the first time that a human entered outer...
by Russian
Russians
The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....
cosmonaut
Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
, Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
, replacing the Catull
Catull
Catull is an old-style serif typeface designed by Gustav Jaeger for the Berthold foundry in 1982. Since May 31, 1999, Google has used the typeface for its logo. It currently costs upwards of $99.00.-External links:* at identifont....
font with a Cyrillic-style
Cyrillic alphabet
The Cyrillic script or azbuka is an alphabetic writing system developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School...
font for a day. The logo was in the style of a Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
poster and featured an animated rocket blasting from the Earth. The two O's were the Earth and Gagarin's face, which could be seen looking up to the stars.
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011, the logo was changed for the 240th birthday of Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer from Cornwall. His most significant success was the high pressure steam engine and he also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive...
. It was made into an early steam train with the first G and the two O's as cogs, the second G as a boiler plate and the L and E as steam pipes.
On Friday, April 15, 2011, a video was featured on the Google's homepage starring members of Google Doodle team enacting a Google-themed scene, honoring the filmmaker and actor, Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
on his 122nd birthday, replacing the Catull font with the font for the New York Times logo for two days. This doodle remained live on Saturday, April 16, 2011.
On Monday, April 18, 2011, the logo was changed for the 129th birthday of Monteiro Lobato
Monteiro Lobato
José Bento Renato Monteiro Lobato was one of Brazil's most influential writers, mostly for his children's books set in the fictional Sítio do Picapau Amarelo but he had been previously a prolific writer of fiction, a translator and an art critic...
. G and L are replaced by two of his creations: Emilia and Visconde de Sabugosa.
On Friday, April 22, 2011, the logo was changed for the 41st anniversary of Earth Day
Earth Day
Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment. The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the...
, an initiative by US Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Nelson
Gaylord Anton Nelson was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the principal founder of Earth Day.-Public service and leadership:...
to inspire awareness for the Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
's natural environment. The logo featured a moving stream and waterfall and numerous types of trees and animals, including penguin
Penguin
Penguins are a group of aquatic, flightless birds living almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, especially in Antarctica. Highly adapted for life in the water, penguins have countershaded dark and white plumage, and their wings have become flippers...
s on an iceberg, pandas
Giant Panda
The giant panda, or panda is a bear native to central-western and south western China. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the panda's diet is 99% bamboo...
eating bamboo sticks, a lion
Lion
The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger...
dozing, a frog
Frog
Frogs are amphibians in the order Anura , formerly referred to as Salientia . Most frogs are characterized by a short body, webbed digits , protruding eyes and the absence of a tail...
, a bird
Bird
Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
, a salmon
Salmon
Salmon is the common name for several species of fish in the family Salmonidae. Several other fish in the same family are called trout; the difference is often said to be that salmon migrate and trout are resident, but this distinction does not strictly hold true...
leaping up the waterfall and a bear
Bear
Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern...
catching the salmon. By hovering the mouse cursor over the animals, the animals can be animated.
On Saturday, April 23, 2011, Google UK added a knight and a horse to the left of the logo to celebrate St George's Day
St George's Day
St George's Day is celebrated by the several nations, kingdoms, countries, and cities of which Saint George is the patron saint. St George's Day is celebrated on 23 April, the traditionally accepted date of Saint George's death in AD 303...
. Also, a dragon's tail was added, covering half of the Google logo.
On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 Google changed the logo to celebrate the 226th birthday of John James Audubon
John James Audubon
John James Audubon was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats...
, a naturalist
Natural history
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
, ornithologist
Ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...
and painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
. The letters were made up from birds and tree branches, drawn in Audubon's style like in his book Birds of America
Birds of America (book)
The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series of sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London....
.
On Friday, April 29, 2011 Google changed the logo to celebrate the wedding
Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton took place on 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey in London. Prince William, the eldest son of Charles, Prince of Wales, first met Catherine Middleton in 2001, when both were studying at the University of St Andrews. Their...
of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. This doodle remained live until 9:00 PM on that day.
May
On Sunday, May 1, 2011 Google changed the logo to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the First World's FairWorld's Fair
World's fair, World fair, Universal Exposition, and World Expo are various large public exhibitions held in different parts of the world. The first Expo was held in The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom, in 1851, under the title "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All...
.
On Sunday, May 8, 2011, Google changed the logo to celebrate Mother's Day
Mother's Day
Mother's Day is a celebration honoring mothers and celebrating motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, yet most commonly in March, April, or May...
by replacing the 'l' with a purple flower and turning the entire logo purple. Also, the Catull font has been replaced with the Courier New font and the blue, red, orange and green colors have been removed for a day.
On Monday, May 9, 2011, Google celebrated the 76th birthday of Roger Hargreaves
Roger Hargreaves
Charles Roger Hargreaves was an English author and illustrator of children's books, notably the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for very young readers...
, author of the Mr. Men and Little Miss series
Mr. Men
Mr. Men is a series of 49 children's books by Roger Hargreaves commencing in 1971. Two of these books were not published in English. The series features characters with names such as Mr. Tickle and Mr. Happy who have personalities based on their names...
, by randomly displaying one of 16 different logos featuring the cartoonish version of the Google logo and one of Hargreaves' characters.
On Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Google celebrated the 117th birthday of Martha Graham
Martha Graham
Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture.She danced and choreographed for over seventy years...
, arguably the pioneer of modern dance
Modern dance
Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century. Although the term Modern dance has also been applied to a category of 20th Century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert dance.-Intro:...
. The Google logo is formed slowly by figures dancing in the style of modern dance. The logo animation was created by Ryan Woodward in collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company.
June
On Sunday, June 5, 2011, Google celebrated the 92nd birthday of Richard ScarryRichard Scarry
Richard McClure Scarry was a popular American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million units worldwide....
, author of the Busytown series
Busytown
Busytown is a fictional town inhabited by an assortment of anthropomorphic animals, as depicted in various books by the children's author Richard Scarry. Main characters of these books include the following: Huckle Cat, Lowly Worm, Mr. Frumble, police Sergeant Murphy, Mr...
.
On Thursday, June 9, 2011, Google celebrated the 96th birthday of the late jazz and country guitarist Les Paul
Les Paul
Lester William Polsfuss —known as Les Paul—was an American jazz and country guitarist, songwriter and inventor. He was a pioneer in the development of the solid-body electric guitar which made the sound of rock and roll possible. He is credited with many recording innovations...
with an interactive guitar that can be played, and includes the ability to record and playback. One plays the guitar by using the computer's mouse, touchpad, or keyboard. This doodle remained on the main page on Friday, June 10, 2011. Like the Pac-Man doodle before it, this doodle was given a permanent home at http://www.google.com/logos/2011/lespaul.html due to its popularity.
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, Google made a doodle for the Total Lunar Eclipse.
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011, the Google logo was replaced by a floral doodle designed by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami
is an internationally prolific contemporary Japanese artist. He works in fine arts media—such as painting and sculpture—as well as what is conventionally considered commercial media —fashion, merchandise, and animation— and is known for blurring the line between high and low art...
to celebrate the Summer solstice
Summer solstice
The summer solstice occurs exactly when the axial tilt of a planet's semi-axis in a given hemisphere is most inclined towards the star that it orbits. Earth's maximum axial tilt to our star, the Sun, during a solstice is 23° 26'. Though the summer solstice is an instant in time, the term is also...
. A winter doodle called First Day of Winter to celebrate the Winter solstice, also designed by Murakami, is displayed on the southern hemisphere.
July
On Tuesday, July 12, 2011, the Google logo was replaced with an image of CathedralSaint Basil's Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat , popularly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral , is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Red Square in Moscow in 1555–61. Built on the order of Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, it marks the...
in place of regular Google logo to accolade 450th anniversary of Saint Basil's Cathedral
Saint Basil's Cathedral
The Cathedral of the Protection of Most Holy Theotokos on the Moat , popularly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral , is a Russian Orthodox church erected on the Red Square in Moscow in 1555–61. Built on the order of Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of Kazan and Astrakhan, it marks the...
in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
.
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011, the Google logo was replaced with an assortment of peas in the shape of Google logo as a tribute to Austrian botanist and monk Gregor Mendel
Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance...
, the father of Genetics
Genetics
Genetics , a discipline of biology, is the science of genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms....
on his 189th birth anniversary.
On Thursday, July 21, 2011, Google replaced its logo with a ‘mobile sculpture’ to commemorate artist Alexander Calder's
Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.-Childhood:Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton,...
113th birthday. When viewed with certain browsers, the doodle moves on its own (rather than a static image) and would be moved by the user's mouse cursor movements.
On Saturday, July 30, 2011, Google dedicated his logo to Italian architect, painter and art historian Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...
, on the 500th anniversary of his birth.
August
On Saturday, August 6, 2011, Google replaced its logo with a vintage 50s-style television set to commemorate Lucille Ball'sLucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball was an American comedian, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy and Life With Lucy...
100th birthday, removing the Catull font and the trademark colors for a day. Several clips of I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
could be viewed by turning the dial on the TV.
On Sunday, August 14, 2011, Google replaced its logo with a green color, crescent and a star and minaret of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
to celebrate 65th Independence Day Of Pakistan
Independence Day (Pakistan)
Pakistan's independence day is observed on 14 August, the day before Pakistan was made an independent country based on border lines created by the British during the end of their rule of India. Pakistan became an independent country in 1947. The day is a national holiday in Pakistan...
.
On Monday, August 15, 2011, replaced its logo with a sketch of Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
's Red Fort to celebrate 65th Independence Day of India
Independence Day (India)
The Independence Day of India is celebrated on the fifteenth of August to commemorate its independence from British rule and its birth as a sovereign nation in 1947. The day is a national holiday in India. All over the country, flag-hoisting ceremonies are conducted by the local administration in...
. However, graphical representation of Indian tricolor
Flag of India
The National flag of India is a horizontal rectangular tricolour of deep saffron, white and India green; with the Ashok Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre. It was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, when it became the...
was missing this time which was used since 2003.
On Wednesday, August 17, 2011, a doodle was made to commemorate the 410th birth anniversary of Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his adequality...
, the founder of the modern theory of numbers. It consists of a chalkboard
Chalkboard
A chalkboard or blackboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulfate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Chalkboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone...
which previously has the Google logo, but most of it was erased to accommodate Fermat's Last Theorem
Fermat's Last Theorem
In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than two....
; only the initial G is clearly visible. The tooltip that appears when the user places their mouse pointer over the doodle ("I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain.") references the conjecture
Conjecture
A conjecture is a proposition that is unproven but is thought to be true and has not been disproven. Karl Popper pioneered the use of the term "conjecture" in scientific philosophy. Conjecture is contrasted by hypothesis , which is a testable statement based on accepted grounds...
Fermat famously made on the margin of the Arithmetica
Arithmetica
Arithmetica is an ancient Greek text on mathematics written by the mathematician Diophantus in the 3rd century AD. It is a collection of 130 algebraic problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations and indeterminate equations.Equations in the book are called Diophantine equations...
.
On Wednesday, 24 August 2011, Google replaced its logo with a doodle to commemorate the 112th birthday of an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
. Doodle showed Borges standing in front of a complex scenery including a large library, a complex imaginary world inspired from his poems and stories.
September
On Monday, 5 September 2011, Google's logo was dedicated to Freddie MercuryFreddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury was a British musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. As a performer, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals over a four-octave range...
, lead singer of the British rock band Queen
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
. The logo itself was made up of cartoon portraits of Mercury with a large 'play' button on top. When pressed, a short cartoon would play to the music of Don't Stop Me Now
Don't Stop Me Now
"Don't Stop Me Now" is a song by English rock group Queen, featured on their 1978 album Jazz. Written by vocalist Freddie Mercury, it was recorded in August/September 1978 at Super Bear Studios in Berre-les-Alpes , France, and is the twelfth track on the album.Musically, the song is based around...
showing Mercury and the band playing at a stadium to a large adoring crowd. Mercury then shoots into the sky, leaps off a cloud and rides a tiger which turns into a race car that he drives into space (being an almost literal representation of the lyrics to Don't Stop Me Now). The cartoon continues with Mercury wearing a crown and cape falling onto a throne surrounded by tigers and bicycle-riding bears. There is also a homage to the famous music video for the song I Want To Break Free
I Want to Break Free
"I Want to Break Free" is a song by the British rock band Queen, which was written by its bassist John Deacon. The song was featured on the Queen's 1984 album The Works and distributed as a single on 7-inch and 12-inch vinyl records and 3-inch and 5-inch CDs. The song had three versions: album,...
, in which Mercury dressed up in drag (albeit still keeping possession of his moustache) and vacuuming a room of a house. After this is a scene of Mercury riding a bicycle into a hole and the video ends with Mercury touching back down on stage rejoining the rest of his band members as the Google logo appears on a black background behind him whilst the band, the surroundings and eventually Mercury fade away.
On Friday, 16 September 2011, Google's logo was replaced with a pair of Orange fruit
Orange (fruit)
An orange—specifically, the sweet orange—is the citrus Citrus × sinensis and its fruit. It is the most commonly grown tree fruit in the world....
and few other fruits in background to commemorate Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle...
on his 118th birthday, removing the Catull font and the trademark colors for a day. Szent-Gyorgyi is credited with discovering vitamin C
Vitamin C
Vitamin C or L-ascorbic acid or L-ascorbate is an essential nutrient for humans and certain other animal species. In living organisms ascorbate acts as an antioxidant by protecting the body against oxidative stress...
and the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle
Citric acid cycle
The citric acid cycle — also known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle , the Krebs cycle, or the Szent-Györgyi-Krebs cycle — is a series of chemical reactions which is used by all aerobic living organisms to generate energy through the oxidization of acetate derived from carbohydrates, fats and...
.
On Saturday, 17 September 2011, and replaced its logo with a comic book style doodle featuring artist the Anant Pai, to commemorate his 82nd birth anniversary. The Doodle featured Uncle Pai sitting in his office, surrounded by shelves full of his own creations. Two such pictures, one in which Uncle Pai is sitting and the other in which he is standing, form the doodle, with the writing of Google connecting the two.
On Friday, 23 September 2011, Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
replaced its logo with 6 small adaptations of Muppets
The Muppets
The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson starting in 1954–55. Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference...
that interact via mouse, for honor of the 75th birthday of Jim Henson
Jim Henson
James Maury "Jim" Henson was an American puppeteer best known as the creator of The Muppets. As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for...
, creator of the Muppets. The Muppets resemble the shape of the letters and colours that make up the Google logo. The doodle is also interactive to represent puppeteering. Pressing a button below a Muppet would activate that Muppet. Clicking the mouse would cause the muppet to open their mouth while simply moving the mouse pointer causes the muppet's head to follow it. Furthermore, further clicking or moving of the mouse pointer causes more movements: The person representing the red O would shake his head and jerk his glasses up in the air while the small red monster would "eat" the long-necked green monster (representing the E and L respectively), only for both to reemerge moments apart. This doodle remained live on Saturday, 24 September 2011.
On Tuesday, 27 September 2011, Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
replaced its logo with a picture of the words Google! in the 1998-1999 logo's font, inside a house with party hats on three of the letters, at a table with a birthday cake and presents on it, surrounded by balloons. This was to mark Google's 13th birthday.
October
On Monday, 3 October 2011, Google Germany celebrated the national day of Germany (Day of German Unity) by adding the coats of each of the 16 federated states to the Google logo.On Wednesday, 12 October 2011, Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
replaced its logo with animated clay
Clay
Clay is a general term including many combinations of one or more clay minerals with traces of metal oxides and organic matter. Geologic clay deposits are mostly composed of phyllosilicate minerals containing variable amounts of water trapped in the mineral structure.- Formation :Clay minerals...
humanoid
Humanoid
A humanoid is something that has an appearance resembling a human being. The term first appeared in 1912 to refer to fossils which were morphologically similar to, but not identical with, those of the human skeleton. Although this usage was common in the sciences for much of the 20th century, it...
figures, including Gumby
Gumby
Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath. Gumby has been the subject of a 233-episode series of American television as well as a feature-length film and other media...
, in honor of the 90th birthday anniversary of Art Clokey
Art Clokey
Arthur "Art" Clokey was a pioneer in the popularization of stop motion clay animation, beginning in 1955 with a film experiment called Gumbasia, influenced by his professor, Slavko Vorkapich, at the University of Southern California.After the Gumbasia project, Art Clokey and his wife Ruth came up...
, creator of Gumby. On the onset, the doodle is composed of five clay balls in the Google colors placed beside a toy block with a G on it. Clicking any of the balls (or even the block) reveal the Blockheads, Prickle, Goo, Gumby himself, and Pokey.
On Friday, 21 October 2011, Google replaced its logo to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Mary Blair
Mary Blair
Mary Blair , born Mary Robinson, was an American artist who was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella...
, who was an American artist best remembered today for work done for The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...
, replacing the Catull font with a 1960s-style font for a day. Doodle featured an image of an illustrator as Mary would have drawn herself, surrounded by the simplistic patterns and shapes that made up her familiar cartoon world.
On Monday, 31 October 2011, Google celebrated Halloween
Halloween
Hallowe'en , also known as Halloween or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day...
with six enormous pumpkins being carved in a time-lapse video by a series of Google employees. They are joined by a variety of costumed characters, other workers, and cleaners as the video shows the progress of the pumpkin carvings interspersed with other amusing activities.
November
On Monday, 7 November 2011, Google's logo was dedicated to honor two-time Nobel PrizeNobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
physicist–chemist Marie Curie
Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
on her 144th birth anniversary. The doodle featured Curie, known for her pioneering research work on radioactivity, sitting among laboratory apparatus.
On Tuesday, 8 November 2011, Google UK celebrated Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley FRS was an English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet. He was the second Astronomer Royal in Britain, following in the footsteps of John Flamsteed.-Biography and career:Halley...
’s 355th Birthday.
On Wednesday, 9 November 2011, Google Japan celebrated Hideyo Noguchi
Hideyo Noguchi
, also known as , was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease in 1911.-Early life:...
’s 135th Birthday.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google Russia celebrated Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 190th Birthday.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google celebrated Hua Luogeng
Hua Luogeng
Hua Luogeng was a Chinese mathematician born in Jintan, Jiangsu. He was the founder and pioneer in many fields in mathematical research. He wrote more than 200 papers and monographs, many of which became classics. Since his sudden death while delivering a lecture at the University of Tokyo, Japan,...
’s 101th Birthday.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google celebrated Veterans Day
Veterans Day
Veterans Day, formerly Armistice Day, is an annual United States holiday honoring military veterans. It is a federal holiday that is observed on November 11. It coincides with other holidays such as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark...
by turning the letters white and by adding a blue background, grassfields, and a tree with a yellow scarf to the Google logo.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google celebrated Polish Independence Day
Polish Independence Day
National Independence Day is a public holiday in Poland celebrated every year on 11 November to commemorate the anniversary of Poland's assumption of independent statehood in 1918 after 123 years of partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria....
.
On Friday, 11 November 2011, Google Portugal celebrated St. Martin's Day
St. Martin's Day
St. Martin's Day, also known as the Feast of St. Martin, Martinstag or Martinmas, the Feast of St Martin of Tours or Martin le Miséricordieux, is a time for feasting celebrations. This is the time when autumn wheat seeding is completed. Historically, hiring fairs were held where farm laborers...
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On Monday, 14 November 2011, Google India celebrated Children's Day. Google had earlier announced that it would put the winning Doodle 4 Google entry on the Google India on the Children's Day. This competition was open to all students from Class I to Class X across the nation. The winning doodle featured Indian musical instruments
Indian musical instruments
Indian musical instruments can be broadly classified into four categories, mainly classical, western and folk. See Carnatic music and Hindustani music. The instruments are further sub-classified into the type based on the science behind the same....
created by 7-year old Varsha Gupta.
On Thursday, 17 November 2011, Google celebrated Morocco Independence Day
History of Morocco
The History of Morocco spans over 12 centuries, without considering the Classical antiquity. The country was first unified by the Idrisid dynasty in 780, representing the first Islamic state in Africa autonomous from the Arab Empire. Under the Almoravid dynasty and the Almohad dynasty, Morocco...
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On Thursday, 17 November 2011, Google Argentina celebrated Lola Mora
Lola Mora
Lola Mora was a sculptor, born in a barn in the , though generally considered native to Trancas, province of Tucumán, where she was recorded and baptized. She is known today as a rebel and a pioneer of women in her artistic field...
’s 145th Birthday.
On Friday, 18 November 2011, Google Italy celebrated Giò Pomodoro
Giò Pomodoro
-Awards and honors:* Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center 2002 -References:...
’s 81th Birthday.
On Friday, 18 November 2011, Google's logo was depicted in a doodle featuring a family photo doodle to honor Louis Daguerre
Louis Daguerre
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre was a French artist and physicist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography.- Biography :...
on his 224th birthday. The French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
and physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
was the inventor of daguerreotype
Daguerreotype
The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process. The image is a direct positive made in the camera on a silvered copper plate....
, the first successful form
History of photography
The first permanent photograph was an image produced in 1826 by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.- Etymology :The word photography derives from the Greek words phōs light, and gráphein, to write...
of photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
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On Saturday, 19 November 2011, Google celebrated Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Lomonosov
Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov was a Russian polymath, scientist and writer, who made important contributions to literature, education, and science. Among his discoveries was the atmosphere of Venus. His spheres of science were natural science, chemistry, physics, mineralogy, history, art,...
’s 300th Birthday.
On Monday, 21 November 2011, Google celebrated Lebanon Independence Day
History of Lebanon
This article deals with the history of Lebanon, and the nations previously occupying its territory.-Phoenicia:The coastal plain of Lebanon is the historic home of a string of coastal trading cities of Semitic culture, which the Greeks termed Phoenicia, whose maritime culture flourished there for...
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On Tuesday, 22 November 2011, Google celebrated Thanksgiving Day. The doodle remained active on Wednesday, 23 November 2011 and Thursday, 24 November 2011.
On Wednesday, 23 November 2011, Google celebrated the 60th anniversary of Stanislaw Lem
Stanislaw Lem
Stanisław Lem was a Polish writer of science fiction, philosophy and satire. He was named a Knight of the Order of the White Eagle. His books have been translated into 41 languages and have sold over 27 million copies. He is perhaps best known as the author of the 1961 novel Solaris, which has...
’s first book publication.
On Saturday, 26 November 2011, Google New Zealand's logo was depicted in a scene where the letters of Google were at a polling booth. This was for the 2011 New Zealand general election.
On Wednesday, 30 November 2011, Google replaced it's logo to commenarate the 176th anniversary of the birth of Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
. The doodle featured a full-width illustration greeting web users, which depicts a famous scene from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the Town of "St...
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