There are many ways to talk about the most simple thing in online advertising – the ads themselves. Depending on who you are talking to and what their role is in creating/running the ads they’ll probably say something different. As we’re always talking about here – advertising is filled with jargon. Knowing which bits are useful, […]
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Ishioka's costume design work on the 1992 film "Bram Stoker's Dracula" won her an Oscar.
Offering a behind the scenes glance at the doodle team in action, Diao shares what she appreciates most about her work.
Today marks what would have been the 96th birthday of Corita Kent, an artist whose work was known for its bold, colorful images spreading messages of love, peace and social justice. To pay tribute, Google has marked Kent’s birthday with a Google logo mirroring her style and form. Kent began her career as a catholic […]
Google made a slight change to their logo recently, as a Reddit user posted. The “g” in the latter part of the word was moved left one pixel and the “l” in the Google logo was moved down a pixel. Ron Amadeo made an animated GIF, the one used above, so you can notice the […]
Today’s Christmas Day Google logo looks similar to yesterday’s logo, with the same layout and border; but, includes artwork inspired by a more urban scene compared to yesterday’s horse-drawn sled. The logo includes an illustrated image of a city block complete with lighted buildings, cars, a bus, and Christmas tree, with Google listed in its […]
Google is celebrating the work of graphic designer Saul Bass today, giving him his very own Doodle video complete with a musical composition by composer Dave Brubeck. Born in New York City on May 8, 1920, Saul Bass made a career creating iconic film posters, title sequences and corporate logos. Many know Bass’s work from […]
Beginning today and lasting through May 10, Google is asking users to vote for the best Doodle submitted by elementary and secondary school students from across the country. According to Google’s announcement, more than 130,000 submissions were received with fifty state winners selected as national finalists to compete for the 2013 Doodle 4 Google national […]
Today is the first day of Spring in many parts of the world and to celebrate, Google has a special Spring Equinox logo. This logo’s design was by Marimekko a Finnish company. It obviously resembles the Google logo but has various flowers, birds, animals and insects to symbolize the Spring season. Bing and Dogpile also […]
Google has posted its 2010 Christmas holiday logo. It may be the best yet! A Holiday Card From Google by the Wall Street Journal has a detailed article on what went into the logo. Google reportedly started working on this logo back in July, spending 250 man hours between five different “doodle” designers to create […]
We cover most of Google’s special logos, also known as “Doodles” here. I wanted to share a video posted by Google named “Meet the Doodlers.” It showcases some of those Google designers who are responsible for some of the Doodles you have seen throughout the years and shows off some of the Doodle for Google […]
In a world where everything changes at break-neck speed, it seems like not a day goes by where I don’t utter some version of the same words and advice. After a recent chat with a couple of other in-house SEOs, it occurred to me… we sound like a broken record. Are we destined to repeat […]
Images are one of the most popular forms of social media news content for a variety of reasons. This form of media is easily consumed, transfers information quickly, usually requires less reading and can project a great deal of information (many times more so than text). People are busy and not willing to give away […]
The Israeli woman behind the Google logo from Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, has an interview like story about Ruth Kedar. Ruth was contracted by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to design the Google Logo. Unfortunately, she did not accept payment in shares of Google stock. Besides for the Haaretz interview, Google Blogoscoped has a brief […]
As we’ve covered earlier, Google’s updated its icon recently to one it said reflects a “simple, playful and unique” brand. Today, the company has blogged more about the design change and calls for ideas from others. Good. Sorry, that new icon is just ugly to me, no matter how much design work went into it. […]
As part of adding our new "Lands" tabs to Search Engine Land last month, I cleaned up our feed page that helps people understand how to add our feeds to various feed readers. The biggest challenge was dealing with the inconsistent sizes of feed buttons from the different providers. I wanted to share how we […]