Google original logo. By 1999 google was finally becoming the insurmountable force we know today and it hired designer ruth kedar to help them craft a logo to match. We work across teams to publish original content produce events and foster creative and educational partnerships that advance design and technology. Google founders larry page and sergey brin liked ruth kedars logo concept due to its playful design the customized catull typeface and unique visual expression.
The official google logo is a solid red square with googles signature lower case g and a plus sign that is centered on the g. The google logo appears in numerous settings to identify the search engine company. This first attempt used adobe garamond with the.
The first google doodle was in honor of the burning man festival of 1998. After the first train wreck of a logo and with google not wanting to hire a graphic designer yet sergei brin took the matter into his hands. This team is a combination of artists and programmers called doodlers.
He chose the baskerville bold font and a green g. Theres a core team that creates google doodles. Googles original logo was designed by popular artist and designer ruth kedar.
Google design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers writers and developers at google. Google often creates special logos called google doodles to celebrate holidays and important people places and events. Google has relied on several logos since its renaming see history of google with the first logo created by sergey brin using gimpa revised logo debuted on september 1 2015.
The very first version of the google logo was never going to win any design awards. Likely created using one of the standalone 3d text generators sold in the 1990s its a real reminder of just how. The previous logo with slight modifications between 1999 and 2013 was designed by ruth kedar the wordmark was based on the catull.
The original google logo was designed by sergey brin. The plus sign is not at the top of the g but again in the. Since 1998 google has been designing special temporary alternate logos to place on their homepage intended to celebrate holidays events achievements and people.
Notice how the square is a flat color as opposed to a gradient and the g is in full view as opposed to being in the corner cut off.