Google co-founders created a stick figure in 1998 to inform users they were out of office. This led to the creation of a Doodle department, producing thousands of Doodles for regional and international Google homepages. Burning Man event inspired the idea, which embodies radical principles.
The Google Doodle had simple beginnings. In August 1998, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were on their way to the annual Burning Man event in the Nevada desert, and decided to let site users know they’d be out of the office. So they designed a simple stick figure and placed it behind the second “o” in the Google logo. The idea took off from there, and special events and anniversaries were celebrated periodically with one-of-a-kind logo enhancements. Since then, thousands of Google Doodles have been created for regional and international Google homepages, with topics ranging from Bastille Day and Chinese New Year to the birthdays of historical and cultural figures such as Isaac Newton and Charlie Chaplin.
Man burns, ideas stir:
The stick figure eventually led to the creation of a Doodle department at Google, with a team of online illustrators and engineers creating Doodles for amused users around the world.
Some of Google’s doodles have been animated and interactive, such as the Doodle game that celebrated Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary in 2010.
Though often called a “festival,” the organizers of Burning Man describe it as a community and artistic experiment. The organizing principles of the event are radical inclusion, radical self-sufficiency, radical self-expression, joint effort, civic responsibility, giving, de-commodification, participation, immediacy and leaving no trace
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