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To help celebrate the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle’s book; The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Google used this logo for a day back in March, 2009. The book has sold 30 million copies since it was released in 1969. It teaches counting and the days of the week through the story of one very hungry caterpillar. It also features some beautiful illustrations and is a great book for all children. It’s currently on sale @ Amazon for $7.91.

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The United States Apollo 11 mission was the first manned spacecraft to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969. On July 20 of this year, Google posted a logo on their website in honor of the 40 year anniversary of the landing. The logo, while first being a little difficult to read is genius. Each crater represents a letter or a part of a letter with the spacecraft has footprints leading to it representing the “l” in Google.

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In two months the International Olympic Committee will name the city that will host the 2016 Summer Olympic games. That’s a whole seven years away giving the city that is chosen a ton of time to plan for the events. Although no city was chosen yet designs for the logo for each city in the bid to host the event has been created. It’s interesting to see what each city came up with. I personally think the Chicago logo is the strongest of the bunch.

View all the logos here.

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Going on Google this morning I noticed that they changed their logo to celebrate Tetris’ 25th anniversary and 125 million purchases and downloads. I love it!

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Leave it up to Google to have some extremely clever logos depending on what holiday, birthday or other event happened on that day in history. Take the Dr. Seuss logo above. Typically a fun company would do something exciting to celebrate Dr. Sueuss’ birthday but Google goes out and changes their logo for the day. Google has an archive of logos they’ve used over the past few years. It can be found here.

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