Dennis Hwang
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| name = Dennis Hwang
| image = Image:dennis-hwang.jpg
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| native_name=황정목
| birth_name = Hwang Jeong-mok
| birth_date = {{circa|{{birth year and age|1978}}}}
| birth_place = Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
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| education = {{Plainlist|
- Gwacheon Elementary School
- Munwon Middle School
- Bearden High School
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| alma_mater = Stanford University
| occupation = Graphic artist
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| employer = Google (former)
Niantic
| known_for = Google doodles
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| awards = Appalachian Arts Fellow Award
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{{Infobox Korean name
|child = yes
|hangul=황정목
|hanja ={{linktext|黃|正|穆}}
|rr=Hwang Jeong-mok
|mr=Hwang Chŏngmok
}}
}}
Hwang Jeong-mok ({{langx|ko|황정목}}; born {{circa}} 1978),{{cite web |title=Google Celebrates 110th Birthday of Rene Magritte with a Magritte Doodle |date=November 22, 2008 |work=artdaily.org |url=http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=27389 }} known professionally as Dennis Hwang, is a South Korean graphic artist currently working for Niantic,{{cite web |title=ART IN ACTION HONORS GOOGLE'S FOUNDING DOODLER DENNIS HWANG |date=August 31, 2015 |work=artinaction.org |url=http://artinaction.org/art-in-action-honors-googles-founding-doodler/ |access-date=September 1, 2015 |archive-date=March 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150315010555/http://artinaction.org/art-in-action-honors-googles-founding-doodler/ |url-status=dead }} who was the original designer of some of the festive logos for Google.
Early life and education
Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, he moved to South Korea when he was about five years old.Jin, Kim. "[http://wk.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/03/22/200203220003.asp Computer artist doodles oodles of 'Google's] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050325050207/http://wk.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/03/22/200203220003.asp |date=2005-03-25 }}." Korea Herald. March 22, 2002. Retrieved on July 19, 2006. His hometown was Gwacheon where he "had a very normal childhood". 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. His doodles during these years were frowned upon. 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 received a degree from Stanford in arts and computer science.
Career
During the Burning Man festival of 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin designed Google's first "doodle" for the purpose of notifying users of their absence. Subsequently, Hwang was assigned to create special Google logos.[http://www.gtricks.com/google-logo/creator-doodler-dennis-hwang Gtricks Dennis Hwang Bio/Video] His first logo design for Google was in honor of Bastille Day, on July 14, 2000, at the request of Page and Brin,Williams, David E. "[http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/07/19/google.logo/index.html Google's unknown artist has huge following]." CNN. July 19, 2006. Retrieved on July 19, 2006. and he went on to design a great many specialty logos. By 2005, he was creating about 50 Google logos each year.{{cite news |title=Google doodler draws attention |first=Emma |last=Griffiths |work=BBC News |date=November 18, 2005 |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4444116.stm }} Hwang has designed Google logos commemorating Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other events such as Piet Mondrian's birthday. He also designed the iconic Gmail logo on the night before its release.{{cite web|last=Fox|first=Kevin|title=Who designed the gmail logo?|url=http://www.quora.com/Who-designed-the-Gmail-logo#ans941549|work=quora.com |publisher=Quora|accessdate=26 January 2012}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zdlZ2rrcZWEC&q=gmail+dennis&pg=PP1 |title=I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 |first=Douglas |last=Edwards |year=2011 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |page=370|isbn=978-0547416991 }}
His position within Google was international webmaster, which made him responsible for all of their international content.Hwang, Dennis. "[http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/06/oodles-of-doodles.html Oodles of Doodles]." Google (corporate blog). June 8, 2004. Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
References
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External links
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- [https://doodles.google/ Google Doodles]
{{Niantic Labs}}
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Category:American artists of Korean descent