Our web designer Zhang Ning and I went to Google Beijing’s OpenSocial Hackathon event this morning. The following board in the lobby of Google’s Beijing office caught my attention while I was waiting for the lady coming down to show me the way up to the sixth floor:
In most cases, things with title like ‘My China’ always promise to be uninteresting and tacky. Not in this one. The board features 84 selected Google logos designed by students from various elementary and middle schools around Beijing. As you can see from the examples below, there are quite a few decent designs, some with sensibility beyond the age of their authors.
‘Afro-chine impression’?
This is a bit of a stretch, but I like the wild colouring.
Probably the most artistically accomplished one in the lot.
The astronaut reminds me of ‘EVE’ in Wall·E.
Again, nice sense of colouring.
Hip-Hop China!
No it’s not by Wang Guangyi.
(I took these pictures with my cellphone, so unfortunately few of the credits are legible. Sorry about that.)