Jun 10, 2018

Celebrating Garden Gnomes

Illustration of Google logo with a garden gnome in replacement of a letter.
An exploration of the design possibilities with wood carving below
The Story

About the Celebrating Garden Gnomes Doodle

 

The Garden Gnomes Team

Lead artist: Gerben Steenks

Engineering: Brian Murray, Jordan Thompson

UX: Diana Tran

Program management: My-Linh Le

Project lead: Brian Kaas

Marketing: Perla Campos, Marlene Meissner, Carlos Diaz

Doodle team lead: Jessica Yu

Cultural research & writing support: Tom Zeller

Sound: Silas Hite

Where this Doodle appeared

The Doodle Celebrating Garden Gnomes launched Jun 10, 2018
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