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It's Dennis Hwang and he's been doodling Google's "special" logos since he signed on as an intern back in 2000. CNN.com has a fun article today that talks a little bit about Hwang's work. Readers may be surprised to learn that Hwang's "real job" at Google is to oversee all of Google's webmasters. The logo designing duties actually take up less than 20% of his time. So how does one end up giving Google's home page the only dose of "personality" that it ever really sees?
From the article:
He has been manipulating the six letters in the Google name into shamrocks, fireworks, hearts and goblins since shortly after he got an internship there in 2000. Company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin found out that he was an art major in college.
"They said 'Hey Dennis, why don't you give this a shot,' and I've been doing it ever since," he said.
Now he's in charge of all Google's webmasters, and designing the logos is only about 20 percent of his job -- but that doesn't mean it's not a lot of work. Hwang said he had to do a string of all-nighters after he had what he called his "brilliant" idea to do individual designs for each of the 32 teams in this year's World Cup soccer tournament.
Want to look through the archives of Dennis's work? You can check out the Google holiday logos back to 1999 right on the Google web site.
Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, an educational web site aimed at translating the search marketing world into something that small business owners can understand. Jennifer specializes in common sense search engine marketing, viral marketing and customer outreach via social media and blogs. A former search marketing consultant and in-house trainer, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children. Her primary clients now are a little girl named Elnora and a little boy named Emmitt.
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