Here is a list of 10 most cherished Google-Doodles of year 2011 as listed PC-Mag.com
1. Google plays guitar for Les Paul’s 96th Birthday
Google celebrated Les Paul’s 96th birthday by means of its guitar doodle. Les Paul was a Guitarist and inventor who built his own guitar, and electric guitar out of his passion for stringed instruments, and in his search for the perfect sounding guitar. The interactive Guitar Doodle created by Kris Hom and Joey Hurst in June 2011 using JavaScript & Flash allowed users to record their own composition when they “strummed” the strings.
2. Shy man “Mercury” as a Doodle
This featured Doodle was created in remembrance of “Don’t stop me Now” Hero Queen Frontman Freddie Mercury and had a YouTube video on its Back end. Google Engineers took three long months to design the Doodle. Jim Beach who is the member of Mercury’s band has set up Mercury Phoenix Trust for the people who are affected by HIV positive.
3. Google’s Art for Art
It was Art Clokey’s 90th birthday that Google dedicated its home page to, with an interactive stop motion doodle that depicts the important characters of Gumby, (which was created by Art). The characters popped out for a moment as the cursor moved over the colored ‘clay’ figures. “This Doodle is a tribute to my father” said Clokey’s son who now owns the all new Gumby Website.
4. Google honored Charlie Chaplin
Google posted an action video depicting Charlie Chaplin’s silent film on his 122nd birthday. It occupied 36 long hours to honor Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin, who was born in 1889, began his entertainment career at the age of 14. He started his own film company in 1917, and lived till he was 60.
5. Birthday of Muppets creator Jim Henson
Google has brought in six original characters with life crafted by Henson who is a Muppets creator .The characters were created in Jim Henson’s company for Google’s Doodle to launch as a home page for Henson’s 75th birthday .The Muppets are from diversified family . Henson philosophy was that we should love people not for their similarities, but for their differences.
6. Google celebrates Verne’s Birthday
Author Jules Verne’s 183rd birthday was celebrated by Google with an interactive Doodle .This Doodle allows the visitors to navigate under the sea which is the “20,000 leagues under the Sea”. This Doodle remains the most fascinated Doodle of the year says Google Doodler Jennifer . Verne’s some of the famous works are “journey to the center of the earth” And The world Famous “Around the world in 80 days”.
7. Animated Doodle Honors Martha Graham
The animation began with Graham’s signature from “lamentations” and then got morphed into a pose from “satiric festival” and then ended with “a sweep of a skirt”. She was well known for her new style of dance in early 1920’s. She performed 181 stage shows throughout her life.
8.Lucille Ball’s 100th Birthday
This logo which is in the vintage TV is from Lucille’s I love Lucy TV show in 1951, Ball’s began her profession for a Hollywood movie Studio MGM she was been acting for Hollywood movies for 20 years before getting in to small screens.
9. Children’s Author Roger Hargreaves 76th Birthday
Google put a series of pictures from Roger’s Mr.Men and Little Miss Book. Hargreaves was a well known children’s author .This was one of his biggest success which sold millions of copies. Mr. Men is being sold every 2.5 seconds around the world.
10. 92nd Birthday of Richard Scarry
Scarry who was born in Boston in 1919, was a comfortable childhood author. He is an art director, editor, and also an eminent writer .The doodle carried the characters of “Busytown” which is a fiction. He was known for anthropomorphic animals living in the fictional Busy Town.
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