Perhaps fittingly for landing a Google gig, the freelance assignment sprung up through social media. Doodle team artist Sophia Foster-Dimino approached Davis about creating todays animation after the two formed a mutual artistic admiration society through Twitter. From there, the adept Davis had a
Sophia Foster-Dimino from the Google Doodle team and engineer Kristopher Hom collaborated on the doodle, which uses the HTML5 Canvas element that allows for dynamic drawings. (Past doodles highlighting technology include the Bunsen burner doodle in honor of Robert Bunsen's 200th birthday, and a dood
Date: Apr 24, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Google Doodle celebrates German physicist Heinrich Hertz
The Washington Post reports that the artist behind Wednesdays Doodle is Sophia Foster-Diminio, who was also responsible for a rather impenetrable Doodle celebrating the work of French mathematician Pierre de Fermat.
Date: Feb 22, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Valentine's Day 2012 Google Doodle is a Tony Bennett love note
Over time, the doodles have become more and more involved and complicated, team member Sophia Foster-Dimino said in a December interview with The Times. More like works of art than fun gags.
Date: Feb 15, 2012
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Google Search Home Page Gets Christmassy With New Doodle
Slowly and gradually, Google Doodle is turning out to be "more and more involved and complicated. "More like works of art than fun gags." Doodle team member Sophia Foster-Dimino said during an interview, Huffington Post reports.
Date: Dec 25, 2011
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Google handcarves 1000-pound pumpkins for Halloween
On the Google blog, doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino explains that she and her fellow scribblers got a hold of half a dozen pumpkins from Half Moon Bay, Calif., and spent 8 hours carving them in nearby Mountain View.
Date: Oct 31, 2011
Source: Google
Halloween Google 'Doodle' Features Time-Lapse Pumpkin Carving
"To celebrate Halloween this year, the doodle team wanted to capture that fascinating transformation that takes place when carving a pumpkin," Sophia Foster-Dimino, a Google doodler, wrote in a blog post. "Instead of picking up a few pumpkins from the grocery store, however, we decided to work on si