Google regularly modifies its logo to celebrate special events like national holidays, birthdays of famous artists and scientists or pop culture references. These special logos are called doodles and I have a few suggestions to the folks at Google for 2010. I didn’t include any annual events like St-Patrick’s Day, Chinese New Year, Thanksgiving etc.
- Winter Olympics Doodle: The 2010 Winter Olympics will open on 12th February. The Olympic rings and the OO in Google should make the Doodle an easy piece of work.
- Bonnie and Clyde Doodles: few outlaws have caught the public imagination like Boonie and Clyde. They were both born on 1910, on 24th March for Clyde Barrow and 1st Otober for Bonnie Parker.
- World Cup Doodle: The kick-off of the 2010 Football World Cup is on 12th June. Even if American have their own football, I don’t think Google can give a pass to the most widely-regarded sporting event in the world.
- Belka and Strelka Doodle: Belka and Stelka were the first animals to return safely from an orbital flights. Along with a rabbit, 40 mice and 2 rats, they were the passengers of Sputnik 5, launched on 19th August 2010.
- Mother Theresa Doodle: Not many people know Agnesë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, but everyone knows Mother Theresa. The Nobel Prize winner was born on 26th August 1910.
Cool Doodles from 2009 and 2008:
Samuel Morse's Birthday
René Magritte's 110th Birthday
Update 28/01/10 : the 2010 Public Vote for the Doodles drawn by Irish students is opened.
Update 12/02/2010: Google published a Doodle for the Olympics
