Colin McDermott

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Google have celebrated Keith Haring’s 54th birthday with a Google Doodle on the homepage of Google worldwide.

Keith Haring (May 4th, 1958 – February 16th, 1990) was a hugely influential figure in the street art and graphic design world.

Haring’s designs have inspired many with their simple, yet expressive vibrancy.

He painted large murals all over the world, from New York to Amsterdam, Sydney, Paris and the Berlin Wall.

Haring was said to have himself been influenced by the anti-Apartheid movement, AIDS awareness, and the crack cocaine epidemic.

In 1988 Keith was diagnosed with AIDS, and the following year created the Keith Haring Foundation.

As of March 2012 there is a retrospective exhibition of Haring’s work at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Google have celebrated the 30th anniversary of the ZX Spectrum and St George’s Day with a Google Doodle combining the two.

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Google have celebrated International Women’s Day 2012 with a Google Doodle on their homepage.

The Google Doodle is a simple design, with a crafty, almost retro look that wouldn’t be out of place on Etsy.

Thursday 8th March 2012 is the 101st International Women’s Day (IWD).

Events all over the world are taking place today to celebrate. “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures” is the theme for the 2012 on the IWD website, though there are many different themes around the world.

Source: internationalwomensday.com

The 2012 IWD doodle follows a much more classicly styled IWD Google Doodle design in 2011.

IWD is celebrated regularly by Google. You can see the last few years of designs here on Doodle news.

The Google Doodle is being displayed world-wide on the Google homepage, on Google.co.uk, Google.com, Google.jp, Google.com.au, Google.nz, Google.ca, Google.co.in and more.

Useful International Women’s Day 2012 links:

• InternationalWomensDay.com
• InternationalWomensDay.org
• Oxfam.org.uk
• Guardian.co.uk
• Manchester.gov.uk

Google have celebrated St David’s day with a fresh Google Doodle on their homepage.

The doodle has a Welsh Dragon (Y Ddraig Goch) smelling a daffodil flower. Google is written in stone in the background, with the dragon’s tail curled around the “l”.

The red dragon appears on the national flag of Wales.

The oldest official recorded use of the red dragon to symbolise Wales was in the Historia Brittonum, written sometime around 829 AD.

St David is the patron saint of Wales. St David’s day is a celebration of both St David and Welsh culture, in Wales, as well as internationally.

The Welsh flag adorned with the red dragon is often prominently displayed.

Additionally the daffodils (or leeks) are pinned to clothes as they are a symbol of Wales.

As well as St David’s day, the 1st of March also marks the day Google push ahead with their changes to their privacy policies.

I personally think it is a big storm in a tea-cup, surely merging all the long complicated individual privacy policies into one simple one is a good thing.

Had to do a quick post on the latest “World record for the largest observed snowflake” Google Doodle.
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Google are today celebrating the birthday of legendary Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury, with an animated doodle on their homepage.

Mercury was born On the 5th September 1946, which would make him 65 years old.

The doodle plays “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen and plays an awesome HTML5 animation when clicked.

I might be wrong but I think they took a little inspiration from the extremely amusing David Armand sketch where he acts out the lyrics to Don’t Stop Me Now.

Google have covered the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges for today’s homepage doodle.

Jorge Luis Borges is an Argentine poet, author and translator, born in Buenos Aires.

He has been described as potentially being “the most important figure in Spanish-language literature since Cervantes.”

His poems and stories have been described as both surreal, “interconnected by common themes such as dreams, labyrinths, libraries, animals, fictional writers, religion and God.”

The Google.co.uk homepage has a Gregor Mendel doodle today.

Gregor Mendel (July 20th, 1822 – 1884) is one of the founders of the modern science of genetics.

In his famed studies he look at the inheritance of certain aspects of traits in pea plants.

Loving the new Google Doodle for the Summer Solstice.

The doodle is called “First Day of Summer” by Takashi Murakami, 2011.

You can view Takashi Murakami’s website here.

You can read about the Summer Solstice here.

In the UK the sunrise is @ 4.45am.