The Google ‘g’

Over the past month or so, I noticed the lowercase ‘g’ appearing as google’s new favicon. It reminded me of my orange lowercase ‘g’ favicon, with a slight font change…Ofcourse now theres no way to prove I came up with it first and maybe people will be reminded of the google ‘g’ when they see mine and think, ‘hmmmm she must’ve gotten this idea from google’. Anyways, below is an article on the google ‘g’, that I came across on Freelanceuk.

Google uses its ‘g’ for design

Google can be tight-lipped when it comes to talking about its technology so it is refreshing that it does more to undo its secretive ways when it comes to design.

Its users may have spotted that the small icon in their browser next to the URL – known as a favicon – has undergone a nip and tuck, it’s first in fact in over eight years.

The blue lower-case ‘g’ of ‘Google’ has emerged because the company wants its icons to scale better to new platforms like Apple’s iPhone and other mobile devices.

Google web designer Michael Lopez said Google has unveiled not just a new favicon, but also a whole new set of logo-based icons that hang together as a unified set.

Over 300 permutations were tried, some of which Google has released, in a “rigorous” design process that was “much harder than we thought at first.”

The process had to be creative because, as Lopez admitted, “we don’t really have a symbol that means Google,” making the Google logo and the letters within the main inspiration.

“We wanted something distinctive and noticeable,” he wrote in a blog post, co-authored by Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products & user experience.

“So we aimed toward transparency or semi-transparency, so the image would have a more distinctive noticeable shape than just a block.

“We wanted something that embraced the colorfulness of the logo, yet wouldn’t date itself.”

From the permutations released, it’s clear the ‘block’ design fails to clearly convey the Google brand, as does a single coloured ‘G’ even when a lower case ‘o’ is added.

In fact, observers say the latter approach comes close to resembling the ubiquitous ‘Go’ box seen at the side of any search tab, and forms the name of Web-based and offline companies.

However, there’s no guarantee that the current favicon will be Google’s definitive one, as the company is calling for other doodles which optimise its brand on mobile devices.

“By no means is the one you’re seeing our favicon final; it was a first step to a more unified set of icons,” Lopez said.

“We really value feedback from users and want to hear your ideas that we may have missed. If you have your own notions about the Google favicon, please send them to use. We’ll do our best to work them in, and maybe your idea will be the one that people see billions of times per day.”

Fun Creative Hats

Yay! It’s finally friday Can’t wait to wake up late saturday morning.

Below is a collection of interesting hats, sported by members of the royal family and other.

Lee, You’re Hired!!!

Congratulations to Lee, on the win! I feel he definitely deserved it. I am extremely glad Helene did not win, after that task she had with Lucinda (where she kept insisting Lucinda should know how to work the computer to print the pictures, after Lucinda kept insisting she wasn’t tech savvy), I didn’t really care much for her managing skills.

Anyways, this was a great season and below are a few videos that I came across…brilliantly creative and well put together. All characters made to look like Lego blocks….lol

The Kosher Chicken {this is my fav}

Micheal Begging


Atishu Incident


Lucinda Gets Fired

Your Fired!!! xoxoxo Sir Alan Sugar

Sir Alan Michael Sugar, the UK version of The Apprentice. Pookey, follows this show on a more than regular basis. Sometimes he’ll play the show over and fwd or rewind to his favourite parts.
He’s tried to get me to watch it and for the most part I do watch it, but not like him. This morning it was down to the final 4! I was extremely sad to find out Lucinda Ledgerwood (Born in Singapore, and began her career in Risk Management before undertaking various roles involving I.T. in the financial sector.) was fired. I liked Lucinda, she always stood out, in her bright colours, she was her own boss and apparently the highest earner from all the contestants.

People who I didn’t like, ‘good jewish boy’ Michael Sophocles, who couldn’t tell ‘kosher’ from ‘halal’. Also Jenny Celerier (woman of the world), who not know was ignorant about the difference between ‘kosher’ and ‘halal’, but tried to sabotage the other teams progress by trying to bribe the sports shop assistants not to string the other team’s racquet. Definitely, distastefully conniving.

Double trouble

Week 7 Sir Alan shocked everyone in episode seven of The Apprentice by sending not one but two contestants home. Even show insiders were unprepared for Sir Alan’s actions and programme makers had to hastily scramble a second film crew to ensure coverage of not one but two taxi rides out of the show.

“Is it ‘Get rid of Jenny day’ or what?” – Jennifer Maguire

Sir Alan seemed disgusted by the goings-on in Morocco, and he certainly had plenty of potential candidates to get rid of as mistake after mistake mounted up. He told them, “There’s no written rule that says I can only fire one person… I can fire three of you today. I’ll fire all bloody five of you if I have to; it don’t bother me”.

In the end it was the two Jennifers who felt his wrath the strongest. “It was like he said, I’m not feeling the Jennys”, said Jennifer Maguire. “There’s a room there that needs to be cleared out. Let’s just get rid of the two of them”.

Already room mates, the women found themselves on the same team this week as Jennifer Maguire led Jenny Celerier in team Renaissance. While Jennifer Maguire was disorganised and lacked attention to detail, Jenny C’s crimes were more blatant. From trying to bribe the sports shop assistants not to string the other team’s racquets to some highly dubious shenanigans surrounding a kosher chicken, her actions didn’t impress Sir Alan at all. He fired her first and then told the others it was “because she’s a bit of a snake”.

“At the start I thought she was bright and articulate, but the tennis racquet trick is dirty cheap sabotage,” he said to his aides. “There is some element of dishonesty about her.”
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Here’s a video of the boardroom going ons during this double whammy.

Now with Lucinda fired, theres Helene, Alex and Lee (yay Lee)

Lets see who wins shall we?