Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2011 about Doodles and Design

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Friday 11th March 2011

• Google Doodles: Burning Man to Pac-Man and Beyond

  by Marcin Wichary and Ryan Germick

  With over 700 fun and geeky custom logos adorning Google’s international homepages, "doodles" have become synonymous with the Google brand. Through a visual feast of never-before-seen high-res art and outtakes, this presentation will examine the history, popularity, and controversy of Google doodles from the perspective of the small team of artists and developers who create them. This being SXSW Interactive, we will highlight the ingenuity behind special doodles like the playable Pac-Man and animated Rube Goldberg/Fourth of July doodles. We also will take a look behind the scenes of the H.G. Wells mystery doodles, the week that the Sesame Street muppets took over Google, the action-packed Olympics series, and more ways we play on our homepage. Finally, we’ll touch on the feedback we receive, lessons learned, the Doodle4Google children’s art competition, what it takes to be a Google Doodler, and the future of Google doodles.

  LEVEL: Beginner

  • CSS3
  • Design
  • Doodles
  • Google
  • HTML5

  At 5:00pm to 6:00pm, Friday 11th March

  In Ballroom B, Austin Convention Center