Ruth Kedar
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Ruth Kedar is an artist and designer, best known for designing the Google logo
. Larry Page and Sergei Brin were looking at designers to design their logo and website and Kedar was asked to present them with some preliminary design ideas. They liked her approach and design style and was hired to design both. The design was accepted due to its playful design, times-new roman type and visual likeness.
Born in Brazil
, she moved to Israel
where she received a degree in Architecture from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She moved to the US to attend the Stanford University
Masters Program in Design.
Her masters thesis was on playing card
design, and she was commissioned by Adobe Systems
to be one of the designers of the Adobe Deck, a promotional deck of playing cards produced in 1988. She went on to design the award winning Analog Deck and Duolog Deck.
She was a Consultant Art Professor at the Stanford Art Department from 1988 to 1999. It was while at Stanford that she was commissioned to design the Google logo.
Ruth Kedar is one of the founders of Art.Net
, where she's been displaying her online art studio since 1994. She has been awarded several design awards and her artwork has been shown in the US and internationally.
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....
. Larry Page and Sergei Brin were looking at designers to design their logo and website and Kedar was asked to present them with some preliminary design ideas. They liked her approach and design style and was hired to design both. The design was accepted due to its playful design, times-new roman type and visual likeness.
Born in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
, she moved to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
where she received a degree in Architecture from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. She moved to the US to attend the Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
Masters Program in Design.
Her masters thesis was on playing card
Playing card
A playing card is a piece of specially prepared heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for playing card games...
design, and she was commissioned by Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
to be one of the designers of the Adobe Deck, a promotional deck of playing cards produced in 1988. She went on to design the award winning Analog Deck and Duolog Deck.
She was a Consultant Art Professor at the Stanford Art Department from 1988 to 1999. It was while at Stanford that she was commissioned to design the Google logo.
Ruth Kedar is one of the founders of Art.Net
Art.Net
Art.Net is a non-profit web-based artist collective of more than 450 artists, poets, musicians, painters, sculptors, animators, hacker artists, and other creative people from around the world, aimed at helping artists share their works on the World Wide Web...
, where she's been displaying her online art studio since 1994. She has been awarded several design awards and her artwork has been shown in the US and internationally.