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Google is a worldwide brand that is primary known for their search engine. Google’s homepage is a white background with nothing more than their logo and a few links. A very simple and colored logo, the first thing that your eye catches is the Google icon.

But have you notice that from time to time Google changes their logo to commemorate special holidays? Every holiday Google will put up a logo with a theme adhering to the corresponding holiday.

What intrigues me is how they are able to come up with the fresh designs every year yet the holiday themes stay the same. They also design logos for dates that celebrate birthdays and events that have had an impact on society. The list includes artists, musicians, the Olympics, to even the launch of the Sputnik Satellite.

Happy New Years: January 1

New Year 2005

New Year 2006

New Year 2007

New Year 2008

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: January 16

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2006

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2007

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2008

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2009

Chinese New Years:

Chinese New Years 2005: Year of the Rooster

Chinese New Years 2006:  Year of the Dog

Chinese New Years 2007:  Year of the Dog

Valentine’s Day: February 14

Valentine’s Day 2005

Valentine’s Day 2007

Valentine’s Day 2008

Valentine’s Day 2009

St. Patrick’s Day: March 17

St. Patrick’s Day 2005

St. Patrick’s Day 2006

St. Patrick’s Day 2007

St. Patrick’s Day 2008

St. Patrick’s Day 2009

Earth Day: April 22

Earth Day 2005

Earth Day 2006

Earth Day 2007

Earth Day 2008

Independence Day: July 4

Independence Day 2005

Independence Day 2006

Independence Day 2007

Independence Day 2008

Happy Halloween: October 31

Halloween 2005

Halloween 2006

Halloween 2007

Halloween 2008

Thanksgiving: 4th Thursday in November

Thanksgiving 2005

Thanksgiving 2006

Thanksgiving 2007

Thanksgiving 2008

Special Holidays:

Keeping up with their creative logo tradition, Google has not used any birthday or special date more than once.  It will be interesting to see how long they can go before they have to design a logo for a holiday that they have used before.

Vincent van Gogh’s Birthday - March 30, 2005

Leonardo da Vinci’s Birthday - April 15, 2005

Louis Braille’s Birthday - January 4, 2006

250th Birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - January 27, 2006

Edvard Munch’s Birthday - December 12, 2006

Sputnik - October 4, 2007

50th anniversary of the LEGO brick - January 28, 2008

Leap Year - February 29, 2008

Alexander Graham Bell’s Birthday - March 3, 2008

125th Birthday of Walter Gropius - May 18, 2008

Anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest – May 29, 2008

Diego Velázquez’s Birthday - June 6, 2008

50th Anniversary of Nasa - July 29, 2008

2008 Summer Games in Beijing - August 8, 2008

Election Day - November 4, 2008 - August 8, 2008

René Magritte’s 110th Birthday - November 21, 2008

Charles Darwin’s Birthday - February 12, 2009

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! - March 2, 2009

Giovanni Schiaparelli’s Birthday - March 14, 2009

First Day of Spring - Design by Eric Carle - March 20, 2009

Earth Hour

Created by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund), Earth Day is an annual international event that ask households and businesses to turn off all non-essential light and appliances for one hour to reduce global consumption and promote the awareness of Global Warning.  Google contributed their efforts by promoting the event through the blacking out of their webpage for one hour.  This year Earth Hour will next take place on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm, local time.  Be on the look out to see what clever ideas Google has in store for Earth Day!

Source: courtesy of Hye No

Earth Day by Google - March 29, 2008

- Abe

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