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Google Doodles by Ian David Marsden

The Very First Google Doodles by Ian David Marsden

One of the incredibly interesting facts 😉 about my decades spanning artistic career, is that I am the very first Google Doodle artist.

Here is a link to a Wall Street journal article about the early days at Google, and how Susan Wojcicki (my boss back then) found me and hired me as the first google doodle creator: Wall Street Journal – Google The Beginning http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304911104576444363668512764.html

Gallery of all the Google Doodles I ever designed

The first Illustrations I made for Google, were shown on April Fool’s Day 2000. Google launched the amazing MentalPlex Technology where you could just think of what you were searching for and Google would find it. I created a little character and made some animated GIFs to explain how it worked.

See the instructions here:

http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/mentalplex/MP_illustrations.html

My first ‘Google Doodle’ series was also the very first actual Google Doodle – namely the Alien abduction of the Google logo which happened in May 2000.

UFO Abducts Google Logo

http://www.google.com/doodles/google-aliens-2000-1

http://www.google.com/doodles/google-aliens-2000-2

http://www.google.com/doodles/google-aliens-2000-3

http://www.google.com/doodles/google-aliens-2000-4

http://www.google.com/doodles/google-aliens-2000-5

My second Google Doodle was Google Doodle II – Founding Father’s BBQ and Fireworks for the 4th of July.

4th of July

http://www.google.com/doodles/4th-of-july-2000-1

http://www.google.com/doodles/4th-of-july-2000-2

http://www.google.com/doodles/4th-of-july-2000-3

http://www.google.com/doodles/4th-of-july-2000-4

The third series of Google Doodles I designed were the Olympic Doodles for the Summer Olympics in Sydney – with the little ‘Kangaroodle” character design I made for the event. I have never received more fan mail than I did during the days these olympic google doodles were online. Hundreds of e-mails from all over the world. All of them positive and friendly.