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Dennis Hwang
Webmaster Manager, Google
Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager at Google, leads Google webmasters in managing their content across Google’s 158 domains worldwide.
He is largely recognized as Google’s logo designer, creating festive logos known as ‘doodles’ for Google’s homepage on special days. After studying art and computer science at Stanford, he started an internship at Google as Assistant Webmaster and was then asked by Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to design the Google doodles on the homepage. He designed his first doodle in honor of Bastille Day, July 14, 2000, and has been designing the specialty logos ever since.
He has produced hundreds of doodles, the portfolio including a large range of creative designs commemorating the Olympic Games, artist's birthdays, Nobel Laureates as well as scores of other events and celebrations. Dennis designs his doodles during his ’20% time’, a system that allows Googlers to spend 20% of their time working on projects that aren’t necessarily in the job description.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about five years old. His hometown was Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province. He went through public schools, spending six years at Gwacheon Elementary School and two years at Munwon Middle School before returning to Knoxville and graduating from Bearden High School. On a return visit to Knoxville in 2003, Hwang was awarded an Appalachian Arts Fellow Award at World's Fair Park by then-mayor Victor Ashe. Ashe proclaimed, "Mr. Hwang's work is impressioned hundreds of millions of times each week, and reaches all corners of the globe. He is arguably Knoxville's most persistent artist."
He is largely recognized as Google’s logo designer, creating festive logos known as ‘doodles’ for Google’s homepage on special days. After studying art and computer science at Stanford, he started an internship at Google as Assistant Webmaster and was then asked by Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page to design the Google doodles on the homepage. He designed his first doodle in honor of Bastille Day, July 14, 2000, and has been designing the specialty logos ever since.
He has produced hundreds of doodles, the portfolio including a large range of creative designs commemorating the Olympic Games, artist's birthdays, Nobel Laureates as well as scores of other events and celebrations. Dennis designs his doodles during his ’20% time’, a system that allows Googlers to spend 20% of their time working on projects that aren’t necessarily in the job description.
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about five years old. His hometown was Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province. He went through public schools, spending six years at Gwacheon Elementary School and two years at Munwon Middle School before returning to Knoxville and graduating from Bearden High School. On a return visit to Knoxville in 2003, Hwang was awarded an Appalachian Arts Fellow Award at World's Fair Park by then-mayor Victor Ashe. Ashe proclaimed, "Mr. Hwang's work is impressioned hundreds of millions of times each week, and reaches all corners of the globe. He is arguably Knoxville's most persistent artist."
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