Dennis Hwang... any idea who this character is? I am absolutely sure that you guys have no idea who this guy is!
But you have seen lot of his works every day while being online. Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jeong-mok is a graphic artist who designs the Festive Logos for Google on special days.
His art is seen by hundreds of millions of people but doesn't sit in a musuem or art gallery. He designed his first logo for Google in honor of Bastille Day, July 14, 2000, at the request of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and has been designing the specialty logos for Google ever!
Though he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about years old. He was a normal kid. During and after his graduation, his Doodles (a type of sketch... Google logos) were frowned upon, but are now his source of income and pleasure. 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.
Though he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to Korea when he was about years old. He was a normal kid. During and after his graduation, his Doodles (a type of sketch... Google logos) were frowned upon, but are now his source of income and pleasure. 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.
As 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."His actual position was Google's international webmaster, which made him responsible for all of their international content and kept him quite busy. Today, he is in charge of all of Google's webmasters, and designing the logos is still only about 20 percent of his job.
Today, he is in charge of all of Google's w
ebmasters, and designing the logos is still only about 20 percent of his job. But that doesn't mean it's not a lot of work. Hwang said he had to do a string of all-nighters after he had what he called his "brilliant" idea to do individual designs for each of the 32 teams in this year's World Cup soccer tournament.
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