Yesterday this popped up on my screen, a Very Hungry Caterpillar/Eric Carle logo for Google:
Aw sweet. It’s one of my favourite picture books! Two reasons for the occasion – the start of fall in the Southern Hemisphere and the 40th anniversary of the book. Google also celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday with a logo recently:
Here’s the archive of Google’s special event logos for the last 10 years. 2008 was a cracker year, while 1999 is pretty much lifted straight out of Word art. I’m really enjoying these crazy tributes – tiny moments of search joy.
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I should stop using the search bar in my browser. I always miss these.
This is cute too: Charles Darwin’s birthday -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teststrip/3273137956/ . I thought it was some HK special but nope, global.
I used to have a folder full of google logos on my mum’s computer in my early teens! I agree with PE, I miss them too.
I saw the Very Hungry Caterpillar/Google logo! I thought it was so cute.
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