If you visit Google today you should notice a link under the search bar:
U.K. kids design a Google logo. Vote for your favourite.
At Google, we like to reflect the ever changing world of our users through the logo designs on our homepage. The ‘Doodle 4 Google’ competition asks young people across the UK to design their own ‘Google Doodle’ and the winning entry will be used on the Google homepage in the UK on 1st October.
For this year’s contest, which has been held in association with the Daily Mirror’s ‘Pride of Britain’ awards, 70k doodles were created across the UK. Our judging panel have selected their top 48, and you can vote for your favourite below.
The voting system is split into the follow age groups, 5-7 yrs, 7-11 yrs, 11-14 yrs, 14-16 yrs.
Who I’d vote for:
Age group 5-7 yrs
My friendly community
My community has friendly people to help out and places to play.
Name: Amelia Warcup
Age: 6
I love this, it’s simple and bright.
Age group 7-11 yrs
Helping Together
My doodle shows lots of people working together to help repair the Google sign. If everyone worked together as a team, they could repair the earth’s environment. I hope this message is spread around the world, so that people start helping to make the world a better place
Name: Anna Readman
Age: 11
In my opinion this age group created the best logos by far. It was extremely hard to choose a favourite as I genuinely loved 4-5 of them. It’s amazing what children can create at such a young age.
Age group 11-14 yrs
I love my community
I choose Graffiti because Bristols background are highly influenced by artists such as Banksy, therefore it is normal for Bristol’s community to be enriched with graffiti. The two hands represent our community where black and white people can unite and help each other to develop the place where we live in. Unfortunatly, there is alot of rubbish in my community and I hope to make a point and do my part to help the community.
Name: Thang Huynh
Age: 14
Brilliant creative imagination by Thang aged 14
Age group 14-16 yrs
Happy Times
When trying to fit my doodle in to theme of ‘My Community’ I used different pictures that normally feature in a community. For example, people close together on the letters, love hearts to symbolise relationships and colour to add more of an effect. The people are all different races but still are playing together in harmony. The rainbow symbolises peace and the joining of different communities.
Name: Daniel Thorne
Age: 15
Just love this, it’s awesome.
Have a look yourself and see if your winners match mine, View all entries and vote here
September 24th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
They can all draw better than me. Especially the 5-7 year olds.
September 27th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Hi there,
My daughter’s has an entry this year in the 7-11 age group (the one with the Queens head).
It’s Ginger Frame – she is so excited – I really hope lots of people vote for her!!
September 27th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Hi Joolz,
To be honest they should all be winners, children produce the most colourful and exciting images of anyone.
Good Luck to her though
March 13th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
i cud probably draw better than your 7-11 catergory cos im the best at drawing and u can ask my mum too.