I am sure that everyone knows about Google Holiday Logos, which temporarily replace Google’s official logo on a particular day purposely to remember a special holiday or event.
Supposed to be celebrating: Children’s Day 2003.
Reason for rejection: Too childish.
Supposed to be celebrating: 150 Years of Cigarettes.
Reason for rejection: Too politically incorrect.
Supposed to be celebrating: 50th Anniversary of Product Placement.
Reason for rejection: Starbucks didn’t pay enough.
Supposed to be celebrating: 5 Years of Google motto “Don’t be evil.”
Reason for rejection: Too self-obsessed.
Supposed to be celebrating: 130th Birthday of Mondrian.
Reason for rejection: Too abstract.
Supposed to be celebrating: 90th Anniversary of the Copyright Act.
Reason for rejection: Potential trademark infringement for using the © symbol.
Supposed to be celebrating: 20th Anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Reason for rejection: Severe complaints by the Pet Duck Association.
Supposed to be celebrating: The 65th Birthday of Googol, a 1 with 100 zeroes.
Reason for rejection: Too geeky.
Supposed to be celebrating: This was one of two drafts to honor M.C. Escher.
Reason for rejection: Too creepy.
Supposed to be celebrating: Two decades of the JPEG image compression algorithm.
Reason for rejection: Compression too lossy.
Well, all the 10 so called “rejected Google logos” are actually fake ones created by someone ( which also I don’t know). The actual man behind designing of the Google logos is Dennis Hwang and all the previous Google Holiday Logos is stored here inside the Museum of Google’s Holiday Logos. Have a nice day! 🙂
