Google Doodle Trees
May 26, 2009 at 12:28 pm 6 comments
In her book, Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connection to Trees, Nalini Nadkarni dedicates an entire chapter to “Symbols and Signs”. A small part of that chapter discusses business logos. A few years ago, one of Nadkarni’s students, Jade Leone Blackwater, collected and analyzed tree-related logos. Within only a few days she found over 200 logos. Trees, it turns out, are common in corporate branding.
Last week, Google unveiled their Doodle 4 Google Winners. School children were asked to sketch a Google Logo representing “What I Wish For the World”. Just like professionally designed logos, trees make frequent appearances. Out of this year’s 400 State Finalists, 90 artists, including this year’s winner Christin Engelberth, incorporated a tree into their design.
Nadkarni and Blackwater spotted trends in the tree-related logos they looked at. Some of those same themes can be seen in the Doodle 4 Google entries. Many of the young artists used trees to support messages of sustainability, taking care of the environment, green living and recycling. Sometimes a tree was used to identify a place, such as a beach in paradise or an African Savannah. But most telling are the remaining entries. They used trees to convey a myriad of messages– Love, Safety, Friendship, Peace, Happiness, Fun, Hope, Completion, Longevity, Harmony.
Let the War Leaf
Elijah Griffin
Gavins Google Respect & Renewal
Gavin Raitt Hughes
Happy World
Aravind Arunachalam
Keep Our Animals Alive
Claire Yuka Bellas
Love Peace Harmony Joy & Happiness
Eshia Rustagi
Treat The Environment Better
Maredeth Steever
A World Full Of Pets
Alaina Beaver
I Wish For Love
Brooklynn Leary
I Wish For Safety
Kennedy Zufelt
Its Good To Be Green
Dakota Brooke Young
Keep The Earth Clean
Evelyn Larson
Care For The Flowers
Elyse Larson
Recycle For Beautiful Green World
Harshitha Kosaraju
Go Green With Google
Conor Kiely
Helping The World
Galila Lingo
Go Green Recycle
Angeline Faieq
Recycle For The Future
Alyssa Ruehlow
For World Friendship
Elizabeth Boulet
Peace:GR8-4-EARTH
Taylor Hope Mcgraw
Help The World Be Green
Sabah K Islam
I Want The World
Gabrielle Smith
Feed Our Animals
Nicole M Dowling
The Better World
Carli Marie Lynch
A Green Peaceful World
Annie Tsai
Peace Love Hapiness
Jessica Sandler
Conserving Nature
Ashton Brashier
Conserve The Earth
Carlos Lopez
Purple Pants?
Loey Gregory Wiley
Caring Does Matter
Jocelyn K Lee
Endangered Species Matter
Courtney Bodine
Wishes For Peace
Abbigail Barber
Happiness For All
Marissa Schuldheisz
Cleaning Up The World
Adam Cowell
Always Having What You Need
Hayden Furman
A New Beginning
Christin Engelberth
Saving More Endangered Species
Arizza Santos
Cleansing The World
Ryan Gielow
Possibilities
Katherine Seeman
Save The Planet
Tiffany Patmon
Put Things In Perspective
Bridget Johnston
Save The Rainforests
Kathleen Stanford
World Happiness
Celeste Herrera
Peace And Happiness
Angelica-Eeva Melissa Digiulio
A Day In Paradise
Callie Roberts
Our Common Home
Kathleen Hazleton
Beauty Of Our Envinronment
Abigail I Ray
An Original World
Janae Mehlhaff
Be Seen Being Green
Jadon Mann
Things That Can Change
Yedi Han
Google For Green
Camille Ohman
How The World Can Connect
Lydia Stevens
If Everyone Lends A Hand…
Charlotte Markle
Peace For The World
Kelsey Carpenter
What A Wonderful World
Josh Voshell
A Wish For Vitual Reality
Natasha Gemine
Change For The World
Keolamaikalani Ahina
Outside Technology Clear Your Mind
Kelsey Driscoll
The Elements Of Completion
Alexandra Olivier
Facing Humanity
Britteny Hudson
A Peace And Love World
Joseph Park
Google Doodle
Jose Alexander Vazquez
Long Lasting World
Jamayra Ortiz
Google Go Green
Jourdan Stallknecht
Beautiful Harmony
Stephanie Georgeson
P.S. If we counted tree-related products such as fruit and leaves, the tally would be even higher!
Entry filed under: Google, Nalini Nadkarni, Nature, trees.
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Anne | May 26, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I like “For World Friendship”
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ideonexus | May 29, 2009 at 4:42 pm
I enjoyed sitting next to you while you were sorting through every single logo Google had online:
Vicky: Is that a tree?
Me: Maybe.
Vicky: How about that one?
Me: Uhhhh…?
It’s amazing how many you found. : )
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Loey | March 11, 2012 at 4:21 pm
I was one of those! The “Purple Pants?” one. Except that wasn’t my drawing… they put up the wrong picture, or the wrong name. I did one about music and arts, that was fifth grade…
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eli Logan | January 5, 2017 at 9:29 pm
It’s hard to come by educated people in this particular subject, however, you seem like you know what
you’re talking about! Thanks
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