Dennis Hwang
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| Dennis Hwang | |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul: |
황정목
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| Hanja: |
黃正穆
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| Revised Romanization: | Hwang Jeong-mok |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Hwang Chŏngmok |
Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jung-mok is a graphic artist who designs the festive logos for Google on special days. He designed his first logo for Google on the Fourth of July in 2000, at the request of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and has been designing the specialty logos ever since.[1] Other logos have been designed commemorating Thanksgiving, Christmas, and unusual events such as Piet Mondrian's birthday.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about five years old.[2] His hometown was Gwacheon where he "had a very normal childhood."[2] He went through public schools, spending six years at Gwacheon Elementary School and two years at Munwon Middle School, before returning to Knoxville and graduating from Bearden High School.[2] His doodles during these years were frowned upon, but are now his source of income and pleasure. On a return visit to Knoxville in 2003, Hwang was awarded an Appalachian Arts Fellow Award at World's Fair Park by then-mayor Victor Ashe. Ashe proclaimed, "Mr. Hwang's work is impressioned hundreds of millions of times each week, and reaches all corners of the globe. He is arguably Knoxville's most persistent artist."
His actual position was as Google's international webmaster, which made him responsible for all of their international content and kept him quite busy.[3] Today, he is in charge of all of Google's webmasters, and designing the logos is still only about 20 percent of his job.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Williams, David E. "Google's unknown artist has huge following." CNN. July 19, 2006. Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ a b c Jin, Kim. "Computer artist doodles oodles of 'Google's." Korea Herald. March 22, 2002. Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
- ^ Hwang, Dennis. "Oodles of Doodles." Google (corporate blog). June 8, 2004. Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
