Today marks the 140th Birthday of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. Most people will realize this when they open Google's search engine today.
Looks like the artist got a little conceptual with the graphics.
The background stems from "Khādī", which is an Indian handspun and hand-woven cloth. The likely raw materials may be cotton, silk, or wool, which are spun into threads on a spinning wheel called a charkha. Khadi was part of Gandhi's, "Swadeshi Movement", which would free India and today's Bangladesh and Pakistan from British Cotton.
Today people can find a excellent array of Khadi wear at Fab India. I own a bunch of Fab India, Khadi Kurtas, but enough of that for now...
The other interesting aspect of the Gandhi-Google image, is letter "G" boys and girls! "G", is the letter of the day...brought to you by Sesame Street... I never thought of Gandhi's head as the letter G, but it may take a while to get out of my head.
My last observation is the Far East Asian Ink drawing style, of the G, sorry...Gandhi's head and the typography. Is there a connection between, Far East Asian, Ink Drawings and Gandhi's peaceful, "Non-Cooperation Movement? I certaintly felt peaceful, when Google's search engine popped up to reveal Gandhiji's Birthday. I wanted to grab a bottle of Sumi Ink and a paintbrush and make a Google image for, Che Guevara, who's birthday is June 14th.
All kidding aside, Happy Birthday Gandhiji! (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948) No need for me to tell you what an impact he caused in this world.
Update: The design was created by someone from RISD, hence my alumni!
From the Alumni Blog:
Jennifer Hom ‘09 IL, a web designer/illustrator at Google, is responsible for today’s Google Doodle of Mahatma Ghandi - it’s Jen’s first doodle for Google. Nice work, Jen!
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