Google Doodles

If you are an inter­net user, you must have used Google count­less times. Have you ever noticed Google’s logo appear­ing in dif­fer­ent design? If you have, then you prob­a­bly know that it hap­pens quite often. Some­times we spend few min­utes play­ing with them, like when there are those pup­pets who laugh if we click on them, and then the “L” eat­ing the “G”, or when there is a gui­tar which starts play­ing if we move cur­sor over it, and some­times they por­tray some his­tor­i­cal inci­dent or leg­end. These designs are called doo­dles. Have you ever thought whose mind is work­ing behind these doo­dles? It’s not an easy job to attract peo­ple every day with a unique and attrac­tive doo­dle. Actu­al­ly there is a team of design­ers behind it who call them­selves “doo­dlers”. Sit­ting in a small office in Cal­i­for­nia, they brain­storm and design these doo­dles to divert our mind for some sec­onds from tir­ing dai­ly rou­tine. They say they are work­ing as a bridge between art, tech­nol­o­gy and graph­ic design­ing. While choos­ing the top­ic of the day, they keep in mind that the top­ic should be amaz­ing and amus­ing, whether it is art or busi­ness. These attrac­tive doo­dles seem to remain part of our inter­net world as long as Google rules the mar­ket.

(Pub­lished in The Laal­tain — Issue 6)