Top 10 Google Logo Designs in 2011

Dec 27, 2011 by admin    1 Comment     Posted under: Graphic Design Tips

If you have ever used internet, you would most definitely be aware of the world’s largest and strongest online company, yes you are right, we are talking about Google! Interestingly, Google have a tendency to switch logos every now and then as a part of Doodle4Google program on various noteworthy occasions. This strategy is targeted on making Google’s web search a more fun and enjoyable experience on the internet.

Did you know that Google had already changed their logos about 231 times in the year 2011 on all or most of their web properties? Normally, you will see Google logos designed specifically to different countries as people from that particular region use their local Google search engine home page (us being in India will use www.Google.in). One of the most favorite and talked about logo design this year was a Doodle created on Giò Pomodoro’s 81st Birthday from Italy.

This sort of move by Google towards their corporate identity and logo design is distinctive and one of kind, along with fun and graphic designers get to learn quite a lot. Here in this article, we have taken some references from the DesignCrowd and made available about top 10 Google logo designs published in the year 2011.

#1 – Giò Pomodoro’s 81st Birthday (Italy)

Giò Pomodoro was an Italian sculptor and Google designers did an awesome job of creating out of the world logo published below.

#2 – Holi Festival (India)

A lovely and creative example of using negative space in logo design

#3 – Jim Henson’s 75th Birthday (Worldwide)

With this logo publishing, Google is celebrating the birthday of inventor of the Muppets, Jim Henson.

#4 – Mothers Day (Worldwide)

An awesomely elegant, detailed and beautiful logo design for mother’s day by Google!

#5 – Birthday of Constantin Brancusi (Selected Countries)

This logo was designed by Google from sculptures on the birthday of Constantin Brancusi who was a Romanian/French sculptor.

#6 – Tom Jobim’s Birthday (Brazil)

This logo was created by Google for Tom Jobim’s birthday, a Brazilian songwriter, on the theme of a Brazilian holiday and was only available to those in Brazil.

#7 – Spring Day (Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria)

Google logo designed for a one fine spring day, and was named as Martisor.

#8 – Panama Independence Day (Panama)

Google logo with the cute and weird national bird – ‘the harpy eagle’ for Panama’s Independence Day.

#9 – Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s 91st Birthday (Australia)

The Google logo below depicts an Australian poet and activist and the “first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse”.  Logo was inspired by traditional Australian Aboriginal art.

#10 – Hideyo Noguchi’s 135th Birthday (Japan)

Google logo design for the birthday of Noguchi who was a Japanese scientist that discovered “the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease”

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