Doodle for Google Extra Credit Art Contest Due before Spring Break!

Examples:

Examples:

Examples:

Doodle for Google  Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we're inviting U.S. kids to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Invent One Thing to Make the World a Better Place "If I Could Invent One Thing to Make the World a Better Place

Theme for 2012 was 'Unity in Diversity

Last year’s Winner Theme : Last year’s Winner Theme : Best Day Ever

Winners

Prizes   One (1) National Winner   The National Winner will have his or her doodle featured on the U.S. Google.com homepage. He or she will be awarded a $30,000 college scholarship to be used at a school of his or her choice, a trip to the Google Headquarters in California for the final awards ceremony on May 21st, 2014, a Google Chromebook computer, an Android tablet, and a t-shirt printed with his or her doodle on it. We’ll also award the winner’s full-time school with a $50,000 Google for Education grant towards the establishment/improvement of a computer lab or technology program with Chromebooks for Education and/or tablets with Google Play for Education   Four (4) National Finalists   Each of the other four National Finalists will win a $5,000 college scholarship to be used at the school of their choice, a trip to the Google Headquarters in California for the final awards ceremony on May 21st, 2014, an Android tablet, and a t-shirt printed with his or her doodle on it.   Fifty (50) State Winners   Each of the other 50 State Winners will win a trip to the Google Headquarters in California for the final awards ceremony on May 21st, 2014, an Android tablet, and a t-shirt printed with his or her doodle on it.   Two Hundred and Fifty (250) State Finalists   Each of the other State Finalists will receive an official winner’s certificate and their Doodles will be featured on the Doodle 4 Google website.

Judging Criteria Doodles will be judged based on the following three categories: Artistic Merit: based on grade group and artistic skill. Creativity: based on the representation of the theme and use of the Google logo. Theme Communication: How clearly the competition theme is expressed in both the artwork and the written statement. Disqualifications Doodles that contain copyrighted images or logos will be automatically disqualified. Only one application per student. If more than one is submitted only the first will be considered and those thereafter will be disqualified.

You can complete in Photoshop or Illustrator. Start with the template file in the Google 4 Doodle folder. You must submit it online for credit by March 20.

Original Doodler : Dennis Hwang

  Dennis Hwang   Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about five years old   He received a degree from Stanford in arts and computer science   During Burning Man Festival of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin designed the first doodle in order to notify users of their absence and not to overload the network with s. Subsequently Dennis Hwang was assigned to create Google logos. Hwang's first logo design for Google was in honor of Bastille Day, July 14,   Today Dennis Hwang is still the Google doodle guy but his main job is being the Google webmaster. He has a whole team under him and devotes most of his time to managing his team, which maintains Google's Web pages in more than 100 languages  

Dennis Google examples The logo was designed literally the night before the product launched. The initial version used the same font as the Google logo (Catull), but Catull has a very awkward 'a', so Dennis decided to use Catull for the 'G' to tie the brand to Google, then cast the others in a cleaner sans- serif

Dennis' Top Ten Tips  Make sure your design complements the shape of the letters in the Google logo, but don't let that restrict your creativity.  Experiment with different media to see which one works best for your design (you can even create your doodle on your PC).  Don't over-complicate your design – simpler images often have the most impact.  Remember that your design could end up on the Google homepage, so imagine how it will look on screen.  To find inspiration for the theme, try thinking about the future and how you would like it to differ from the present.  Remember to use color well and think about how it interacts with a white background.  Avoid commercial or copyrighted images.  Think outside the box – try to create a doodle that's different from your classmates and hasn't been done before.  Feel free to use the space behind and in front of the Google letters, but try to maintain your design's overall balance.  Have fun! "Doodle 4 Google" is all about creativity and enjoying designing fun things. Think about how you want to change the world.

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Doodle for Google: Finalists