SF JOURNAL » google http://www.shaofoundation.org.cn/blog Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:08:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 ‘Doodle 4 Google’ http://www.shaofoundation.org.cn/blog/2008/12/doodle-4-google/ http://www.shaofoundation.org.cn/blog/2008/12/doodle-4-google/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:31:13 +0000 Lawrence Li http://www.shaofoundation.org.cn/blog/?p=239 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:

Doodle 4 Google drawings caught at Google's Beijing office

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.


Doodle 4 Google drawings caught at Google's Beijing office
‘Afro-chine impression’?

Doodle 4 Google drawings caught at Google's Beijing office
This is a bit of a stretch, but I like the wild colouring.

Doodle 4 Google drawings caught at Google's Beijing office
Probably the most artistically accomplished one in the lot.

Doodle 4 Google drawings caught at Google's Beijing office
The astronaut reminds me of ‘EVE’ in Wall·E.

Doodle 4 Google drawings caught at Google's Beijing office
Again, nice sense of colouring.

Doodle 4 Google drawings caught at Google's Beijing office
Hip-Hop China!

Doodle 4 Google drawings caught at Google's Beijing office
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.)

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