BARCELONA - Google is celebrating Valentine's Day with a doodle from pop artist Robert Indiana.
The company's homepage logo has been transformed into a piece of pop art, reminiscient of Indiana's famous "Love" piece. The image, featuring the "L" and "O" on top of the "V" and "E" with the "O" tilted to the right, was featured as an 8-cent stamp in 1973, and inspired a number of different multi-colored serigraph/silk screen versions, as well as larger statues.
As a result, Google's logo today features the "Goo" on top of the "gle" in the company's logo, with the first "O" shaped like a heart and the second "O" tilted to the right like Indiana's iconic "Love" work.
Indiana, born Robert Clark in 1928, has created a number of different versions of his love statute in a variety of of different languages. During the 2008 presidential election, he created one for Barack Obama that replaced "Love" with "Hope."
Click on the logo for more details about Valentine's Day. Named after Saint Valentine, the celebration was established by Pope Gelasius in 496 A.D., though it was removed from the Roman calendar in 1969. Here in Spain, where the mobile industry is prepping to kick off Mobile World Congress today, Valentine's Day is known as "San Valentin."
Google has had a number of popular doodles lately, including an interactive image celebrating author Jules Verne's 183rd birthday and a moving doodle for Thomas Edison's 164th birthday.
For more, check out PCMag's Valentine's Day Gifts with a Tech Twist
