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Culture April 21, 2017
Aside from its powerful search engine, one our favorite things about Google is how the logo is ever-changing.
From Halloween to the start of the basketball season, the Google doodle celebrates international holidays, famous birthdays and important moments in history. It practically serves as our own personal calendar!
And if you’re wondering how this started, you can thank Google’s co-founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page. In honor of the 1998 Burning Man Festival, Brin and Page created a simple Google doodle to serve as an out-of-office message.
But what do the doodles look like today? Well, here are some of ENTITY’s favorite female-inspired Google doodles from 2017.
Recently, Google celebrated what would’ve been Esther Afua Ocloo’s 98th birthday. Esther was an entrepreneur and advocate for micro lending, working tirelessly to help others like her succeed.
Esther really believed that lending money to other women could start a ripple effect and improve the overall prosperity women. During her time, banks often dismissed low-income women. In response to this, she founded and became the chairman of the Board of Directors of World Banking in 1979. Today, the bank provides millions of low-income women the help they need to reach their goals.
And on the same day as Esther’s birthday, the Google doodle team highlighted another #WomenThatDid.
Kaimook Chuto was the first female sculptor of Thailand and April 18, 2017 would’ve been her 79th birthday. Thanks to her memorable artwork, Queen Sirikit of Thailand named Kaimook “The Sculptor of the Royal Court.” One of Kaimook’s best known sculptures is the Three Kings Monument. But on top of that, she has also created plenty of sculptures of Thailand’s kings and queens.
As you can see, Google doodle is a fan of celebrating birthdays. So to celebrate what would’ve been Chu Ming Silveira’s 76th birthday, Google designed the doodle above.
Silveira is the architect who designed a better payphone booth for Brazil. Her new designs gave the country’s citizens phone booths that were durable, lightweight and inexpensive.
These phone booth are known as the orelhão, which is Portuguese for “big ear.” And today, there are over 52,000 orelhão in Brazil and various adaptations of it can be found in Peru, Colombia, Angola, Mozambique and China.
Many people in Indonesia (and even around the world) loved Saridjah Niung, the musician, teacher, radio announcer, playwright and batik artist. Better known as Mrs. Soed, many young children today continue to enjoy her music. Some of her most popular songs include “Hi Pedicab,” “Strong Kids” and “Butterflies.”
But aside from creating music for kindergarten-aged kids, Mrs. Soed also wrote patriotic hymns during the Dutch colonial years and the Indonesian national anthem.
And to top off this list, ENTITY shares one of Google’s doodles for International Women’s Day. To celebrate this memorable day, Google created a slideshow, starting with a little girl whose grandmother tells her “the best bedtime story ever: the tale of her favorite historical heroines.”
In the slideshow, Google showcased 13 women who have made their mark in history. “It all started in 1908, when a group of women gathered in New York City to demand fair pay, better working conditions, and the right to vote,” Google wrote in their description. “Their commitment to equality sparked similar events in other countries.”
Hopefully in the future, there will be even more women to celebrate.
