{"id":212,"date":"2010-06-10T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspirationreport\/2010\/06\/google-jeff-koons-homepage.html"},"modified":"2010-06-10T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T11:10:02","slug":"google-jeff-koons-homepage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspirationreport\/2010\/06\/google-jeff-koons-homepage.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Inspires with Jeff Koons and Dale Chihuly Art on Homepage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s logos<\/a>, first introduced in 1999, have brought a smile to people’s faces with their colors, artistry, and unique designs.  Logos have promoted everything from major holidays to the anniversary of inventions to famous birthdays.  <\/p>\n

Today, Google launched a series of backgrounds you can select to customize your Google homepage (the background automatically changes as you refresh, but you can also click on a link in the lower left corner to change the image).  Like Google’s logos, the backgrounds are vibrant and bright-hued and fun.  <\/p>\n

There are photos of artwork by famous artists such as Jeff Koons<\/a>, best known for creating gigantic metal sculptures of balloon animals, and Dale Chihuly<\/a>, best known for creating tentacle-like glass sculptures.  Photos of works by Polly Apfelbaum<\/a>, a large-scale paper artist, Tom Otterness<\/a>, a metal sculptor of cartoon-like people and animals, and Yann Arthus-Bertand<\/a>, a photographer of aerial landscape shots, are also featured.<\/p>\n

Instead of a plain search page, who wouldn’t want to wake up to cheerful images of metal balloon animals, floors full of paper flower petals, and chubby, pastel-colored pigs by Ki-soo Kwon<\/a>?  You can refresh the homepage and refresh your day at the same time, allowing the small things to make your day just a bit more colorful. <\/p>\n

See some of the Google background photos below:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\"google-jeffkoons.jpg\"<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff Koons <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\"google-dalechihuly.jpg\"<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dale Chihuly<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\n\"google-pollyapfelbaum.jpg\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Polly Apfelbaum <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\"google-tomotterness.jpg\"<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Otterness <\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\"google-yannbertrand.jpg\"<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yann Arthus-Bertrand<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\n\"google-flowerpigs.jpg\"<\/span><\/p>\n

Ki-soo Kwon<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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