Contact Information

Information for Schools:
Helena Smales, James Steven or Becca Graham
Tel: 0207 684 6969
Email ukdoodle@google.com

Information for Press:
Press Centre
Tel: 0207 031 3000

2006 Competition

Bristol Evening Post
Pupils' screen doodle hopes (PDF)
"Children from Fair Furlong Primary School hope to see their artwork popping up on computer screens across the country. They are among 5000 schools taking part in Doodle 4 Google – My Britain…"

Leicester Mercury
Children inspired in search for dandy doodles
"Illustrator Rebecca Riley, from Leicester, went along to Granby Primary School to inspire pupils taking part in the Doodle 4 Google – My Britain contest…"

Newcastle Evening Chronicle
Pupils’ sketches of life in Britain (PDF)
"Creative students have teamed up with a North East artist to increase their chances of winning a national design competition"

Sale Messenger
School aims for doodle success (PDF)
"Creative pupils… were vying for the opportunity to have their artwork displayed to millions of people across the world this week…"

Lancashire Evening Post
Doodle 4 Google and win a trip to sunny California (PDF)

Newcastle Evening Chronicle
Doodle design

Liverpool Echo
Web search for young doodlers (PDF)

The Mirror
Q&A Dennis Hwang
"We caught up with the 27-year-old computer artist from Korea as Google launched a nation-wide design competition for Britain's 10 million school children…"

Evening News Scotland
Around town: Pupils doodle for Google (PDF)

Computer Active
Google launches competition for UK school children

IC Wales
Children urged to Doodle 4 Google
"The winning doodle will be displayed on search engine www.google.co.uk for a day, and will be seen by around 18 million people…"

ZDNet UK
Google searches for picture of Britishness
"Google has launched a competition which invites schoolchildren to create an image which represents what it's like to live in the United Kingdom for display on the company's famously sparse UK homepage…"

Webuser
Google launches art contest
"UK school children have the chance to get their artwork posted on the Google homepage through a new competition…"

Pocket-lint
Google launches doodle competition

Art In Liverpool
Doodle 4 Google - Schools Competition



2005 Competition

The Sun
"Fans of internet search engine Google are amazed at the site's ever-changing logo. Dennis Hwang's works of art are seen by an incredible audience of 430 million people every month."

Guardian Unlimited
"The invite was not about the office, it was about the children. Google chose to mark the opening of its latest Googleplex with a competition among local school children to design a new doodle for its UK homepage..."

The Daily Telegraph
Google launches web pages for all
"Google announced that local schoolgirl Lisa Wainaina, 11, had won a doodle competition to have her version of the company logo shown on the UK website for a day – where it will be seen by 17m people..."

BBC News Online
Google doodler draws attention
"Amid the lava lamps at plush new offices in central London, students are jostling to meet an elusive graphic artist, Dennis Hwang, whose work is viewed by millions every day..."

CNET online
"I thought I had a pretty secure job, but these kids are competition I wasn't aware of," Hwang joked, "my job security just went out the window..."

Design Week
"Hwang was in town to present a prize to 11 year old London schoolgirl Lisa Wainaina, whose pretty design won its school art competition and was adopted as Google's home page in the UK for one day..."

ITV London Tonight
"A budding young London artist has just earned herself a platform that the most famous professionals would envy...A good day all round, then. Artistic triumph for Lisa, peerless publicity for Google and a state of the art white-board for the young artist's school..."

Search Engine Watch
London Kids Doodle For Google As Part Of New Office Opening

Silicon.com
Mobile & Wireless: Google opens London GooglePlex for mobile push

Design Week
Profile: Dennis Hwang (PDF)