jules verne birthday Archives - saxtonstudio blog https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/tag/jules-verne-birthday/ art & design / words & pictures / creativity & inspiration / life & the universe Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:16:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/blog.saxtonstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sid.icon_.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 jules verne birthday Archives - saxtonstudio blog https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/tag/jules-verne-birthday/ 32 32 113749947 Googling Jules Verne https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/google-and-jules-vern/ https://blog.saxtonstudio.com/google-and-jules-vern/#respond Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:16:32 +0000 http://saxtonstudio.wordpress.com/?p=4271 Every once in a while Google has some fun with its logo treatment. Today’s marine scene caught my eye (were there Mermaids swimming inside the double “o”‘s?), so I did a little deeper-sea exploration. The design ~ which is interactive, by the way (the “joystick” lets you move the sea...

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]]> Every once in a while Google has some fun with its logo treatment. Today’s marine scene caught my eye (were there Mermaids swimming inside the double “o”‘s?), so I did a little deeper-sea exploration.

The design ~ which is interactive, by the way (the “joystick” lets you move the sea and its creatures around … such power!) ~ honors the birthday of prolific French author Jules Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905). Verne is best known for “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).

A click on their logo takes you to a Google search page all about Jules Verne. A very clever way to say Happy Birthday to one of the literary greats.

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