Dennis Hwang

I chose to profile the great Dennis Hwang. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this name, maybe the word Google can ring a bell for you. This man is a graphic design genius, designing the festive logos for Google on those special days when you open your search engine and are enlightened by a fun and interesting image. Hwang was invited to create Google logos in 1998 following the Burning Man Festival when Google founders were absent and placed a stick figure inside the Google logo to notify users they were out of the office, and subsequently created his first logo honoring Bastille Day. Today he is the official Google chief doodler, and manages a team of illustrators that work together to design the Google logo today. If you visit http://www.google.com/doodles/finder/2012/All%20doodles you can take a look at all of the Google doodles ever created. Hwang was born in Tennessee, and moved to Korea at the age of five. He spent a majority of his time doodling, it being frowned upon until he came back to America and made a name for himself, and earned a graduate degree from Stamford in art and computer science. I wanted to profile this artist because he deserves so much more recognition than he gets. Everyone who has ever used Google is aware of these fun logos, but they are not aware of the man behind them.