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Mangesh Hattikudur
Oodles of Googles
by Mangesh Hattikudur - July 20, 2006 - 10:37 AM

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CNN is outing one of the Internet’s best-known artists today. While the name Dennis Hwang probably doesn’t mean anything to you (no offense if you happen to be Dennis Hwang’s mother), you’ve almost certainly seen the 28-year old’s artwork: Hwang’s the guy that draws all those fancy Google logos celebrating everything from Michelangelo’s birthday to National Library Day. And what a guy! According to the CNN piece, Hwang was actually an art major in college, before interning in the tech sector with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in 2000. But how’d he land the plush drawing gig? When the pair heard Dennis had some sort of art background, they casually asked him to try his hand at a logo variation, and he’s been doing it ever since. Supposedly, drawing only consumes about 20% of his job (he’s also a manager in charge of all of Google’s webmasters). Even more surprising is the fact that Hwang ends up doing a lot of all-nighters to get the images done in time!

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  1. Interesting! Maybe we could lure him away for a day and get him to do something for us on Einstein’s Bday?

    posted by David on 7-20-2006 at 12:19 pm

  2. i went to school with dennis. we used to write plays on some old school mac play-writing software [inane detail] (this was during art class when we were supposed to be arting. biiig slackers. [inane detail]). great guy. the kind who is super humble and understated but wields great power. by that i mean he owns his on nuclear weapons. [lie. and a bad one at that]

    oh by the way i’m from knoxville, as is he (sort of) and we both attended bearden high school, if anyone cares at all. long live floweree galetovic! [personal reference of no apparent importance]

    posted by cary norton on 7-21-2006 at 1:53 am

  3. small world (particularly when the internet gets involved)! the only celebs who went to my school in delaware are judge reinholdt, someone in George Thorogood’s band, and one of the kids from The Sandlot…

    posted by Mangesh on 7-21-2006 at 11:33 am

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