Amazing Doodles

Martha Graham's 117th birthday Google Doodle

Did anyone notice the neat animation (above image) from Google's homepage? Here's a video of the same theme from the animator, Ryan Woodward.

If anyone are Google users, you all would have noticed their doodles which appear once in a while, are innovative and quirky surprises that most of us are delighted to find when we open the ever resourceful search engine! As a loyal Google user, I have often seen their doodles and enjoy seeing them. It may be trivial information but it's nice to know the day the ice cream sundae was invented (3rd April 1892) ;)

Ice cream sundae Google Doodle

For those of you who dont know what a Google Doodle is, it is the graphics you see at the Google logo whenever you see their homepage. It is usually done to celebrate the anniversary of a certain event/object/person. Back in the days, the Google doodles would have 1 thing in common, which is the design must have the letters of Google's name and they are non moving.

Previous Google Doodles that were non moving

But with the passing of time, those Doodles have gotten more livelier as they are starting to emerge as Flash animations to interactive features like a game or navigator to even a video! Here are recent examples of Google Doodles that you can check out:

Charlie Chaplin doodle

(Since I dont know how to include 2 videos in 1 post, I put the Charlie Chaplin doodle as a link to Youtube instead!)
Yupp, it was a 2 minute video of their own story with Charlie Chaplin as their character. I think this is one of the most innovative Doodles from Google ever since it is a full on video instead of an animation.

This Google Doodle was to celebrate Jule Vernse's birthday who is the French science fiction author who pioneered the genre itself. His most famous work is Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea which was published in 1870 and the inspiration for this Doodle. The handle on the right side enables you to 'navigate' the animation that goes on in the 'Google windows'

This Google Doodle is about the first World's Fair in London. The interaction here is that by moving your cursor over the Doodle, a magnifying glass will appear and you will be able to see up close and personal the little things happening in the mini World's Fair


This is the Google Doodle that I think has not much resemblence to the Google logo, however those designs were images of actual sculpting creations of Constantin Brâncuş. This Doodle was to commemorate his 135th birthday on 19th February 1876.

Another brilliant Doodle by Google is this Pacman game! It really can be played by the user and it was actually custom built from the ground up using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS on the homepage. Unlike any other Doodles, this one stayed on the homepage for 48 hours. To know more about how this Doodle came about, go to this article.