Google Doodler, Dennis Hwang

August 19, 2008

1. Beijing Olympics ‘08, Basketball — 14th August

2. Beijing Olympics ‘08, PingPong — 18th August

3. Bonus - Google’s Orkut Olympics Logo

Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jeong-mok, is a webmaster and the “Google Doodler” who designs the festive logos for Google on special days. He has been manipulating the six letters in the logo since he got an internship there in 2000. Company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin found out that he was an art major in college, and suggested he give it a shot. The doodles comprise about 20% of his project workload.

Dennis Hwang’s drawings are viewed by nearly 180 million people PER day.

+ Official Google Page (with a vid of Dennis Hwang at work): Original Doodler
+ Stanford Magazine: The Art of The Doodle, Dennis Hwang, ’01

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