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Gumby Creator Art Clokey Honored in Nostalgic Google Doodle

Andrea Rosen — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:41:36 +0000

Visit the Google homepage today and you might recognize a familiar face: Gumby is in the Google Doodle spotlight. The doodle, which commemorates the 90th birthday of late Gumby creator Art Clokey (he passed in January 2010), is also animated — clicking on the colored balls of clay reveals the whole Gumby gang, including Pokey the horse and the Blockheads.

Celebrate Google's Birthday With Every Google Doodle [ART]

Jeremy Taylor — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:00:19 +0000

Google turned 13 Tuesday, and the search engine celebrated its big day the same way it has every year since 2002 — with a special anniversary doodle. This year’s effort, a staid, retro birthday party scene, doesn’t quite seem befitting of a newly-minted teenager. But, then again, 13 is pretty ancient in Internet years. It’s a testament to [...]

Celebrate Les Paul's Birthday With Playable Google Doodle

Grace Niemitalo — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 18:13:49 +0000

Today, Google is paying tribute to the late guitar pioneer Les Paul with a guitar-themed doodle that allows users to play it and record songs of their own.

The doodle, which was designed by engineers Kristopher Hom and Joey Hurst and doodle team lead Ryan Germick, will be up for 24 hours, and was released to celebrate what would have been Paul's 96th birthday. (Paul, a leader in the development of the solid-body electric guitar, died of complications from pneumonia in 2009.)