How Google grew its logo for Earth day

Google, which has a tradition of commemorating special events through clever variants and animations around its logo had a very special plan for Earth day on Sunday. [caption id=“attachment_284798” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Google actually grew the flowers that bloomed in the time lapse animation of its doodle: Screenshot”]  [/caption] Visitors to its home page saw a leafy version of Google’s name on top of a patch of dirt that grows red, blue, and yellow flowers as you watch. The flowers slowly bloom in a lovely time-lapse shot to create the familiar color patterns of Google’s standard logo. But what was really special about the logo was that the flowers you saw on the time lapse logo were real. PC Mag reports, “According to Google vice president Marissa Mayer, the flowers you see in Google’s logo today were all planted and photographed at various points during their lifecycle to create the animation. In other words, it’s real.” The Google had the lines, Roses are red, violets are blue, for Earth Day this year, let’s all plant a few" underneath, and clicking on the link took users to a special “Earth day page” which included information on how to plant and maintain your own garden. Earth Day was first held on 1970 after Gaylord Nelson, a US senator, conceived it as a tool to promote an environmental agenda after witnessing a huge oil spill off the coast of California a year earlier.