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If you’ve ever found yourself attracted to something you just drew, Doodle Date, a game of romancing your own drawings no matter what they are, may be for you. Doodle Date will have players drawing the people they wish to date, the movies they go to see, the food they eat, and more, creating their […]
Pi Day was first established 30 years ago in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw. The day celebrates the number 𝛑, 3.14, and is also Albert Einstein’s birthday and now the day Stephen Hawking died. If you’d like to celebrate the day with a delicious pie, Google got Cronut creator Dominique Ansel to share a recipe for […]
Today’s Google Doodle is an intricately drawn portrait of one of the most iconic and foremost female novelists of the 20th century. Virginia Woolf was a pioneering English writer in the stream-of-conscious narrative method and a feminist icon. Her most critically acclaimed novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse have inspired generations of […]
It is St Andrew’s Day today (November 30) and Google has created a beautiful ‘colouring-in Doodle’ to pay tribute to Scotland’s patron saint. With help from Scottish artist Johanna Basford, the iconic Google logo has been transformed into a homage to Scotland. Ms Basford said: “To mark St Andrews day, Google asked me to create […]
Google is celebrating the 66th anniversary of what’s considered the first modern recording studio with a Doodle. Back in 1951, a group of composers founded the Studio for Electronic Music as part of the West German Broadcasting radio. It was ran by and hosted a multitude of forward-thinking musicians at the time, including Karlheinz Stockhausen, […]
Google is no stranger to celebrations. In the past, the festivities have brought new features for Google Photos, and Google Earth, and a montage (with a Rickrolling twist) for YouTube’s tenth anniversary. Today, the party is coming to its Doodle. To mark 19 years of company history, the latest Google Doodle packs 19 surprises from […]
Today’s Google Doodle honours the late Russian crooner on what would have been his 83rd birthday. Khil was a Soviet-era singer who experienced an unlikely second heyday as a YouTube sensation. In 2010, a video resurfaced which sees Khil mouth his way through a lyric-less version of the song I Am Very Glad, As I’m […]
Jamaican American DJ Kool Herc is credited with starting the cultural revolution of hip hop in the New York Bronx, dubbed the Boogie Down Bronx. During a set in the Bronx on August 11 1973, DJ Kool Herc decided to play just the instrumentals, or ‘breaks’, – sections where he noticed the crowd went […]
Google Forty-four years ago today DJ Kool Herc threw a party in the Bronx and decided he wanted to change up the sound. He played only the instrumental sections or “breaks” from full songs and had his friend Coke La Rock hype the crowd through the mic. The partygoers went nuts and modern day hip-hop was […]
Around 30 years before Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, McLuhan wrote about a “global village” of humanity with equal access to information through technology. In other words, the internet. “Decades later, we honour the man whose prophetic vision of the ‘computer as a research and communication instrument’ has undeniably become a reality,” Google […]
