The doodle you see on the Google Vietnam homepage today stands out from those in several other countries, as it is an artwork of an eight-year-old Vietnamese schoolboy.
While users in Japan, Turkey, Mexico, Columbia, and Nigeria will see kids playing slides when visiting Google sites in their countries, those in Vietnam will see the logo changed into a colorful picture of a lion often seen in lion dance, a goat, and flowers to celebrate the Children’s Day (June 1).
Le Hieu, a third grader hailing from the southern province of Dong Nai, has a huge honor of having his drawing displayed on the localized site of the search engine giant throughout today.
Hieu was named Saturday the winner of the “Doodle 4 Google,” a contest Google held to solicit creative doodles created by Vietnamese kids countrywide between November 2014 and April 2015.
The doodles are the fun, surprising, and spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays and anniversaries and commemorate the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.
Hieu’s work, which he names “Celebrating the Spring of the Year of the Goat,” includes typical images of Tet (Vietnam’s Lunar New Year) this year, such as the goat, apricot blossom, and lion dance. Tet was on February 19.
“The Year of the Goat is here, and the image of the lion dancing with flowers falling from the apricot trees is all I can think of," Hieu described his drawing.
"That is why I want to borrow these symbolic items of Tet to decorate my doodle. This spring, I wish everyone to be happy."
As the winning entry, Hieu’s doodle is displayed on Google Vietnam (google.com.vn) for the entire Children’s Day.
Google also has its own doodle to celebrate Children’s Day in multiple countries.
The doodle is meant to “raise awareness about the possibilities within each and every young person, and how they can improve our world, and ourselves,” Google said on its Doodle site.
“The potential of children is limitless. Let’s help them achieve their best, so that we, as a society, can achieve ours.”
Hieu was among the 18 finalists of the first-ever Vietnamese edition of the “Doodle 4 Google,” whose works can be found at google.com.vn/doodle4google.
The Doodle 4 Google contest was launched in Vietnam in late November 2014.
Themed “My Dream,” the contest was open to children aged between seven and 15, who were encouraged to never stop dreaming and pursuing their dream to contribute to the development of the community and the world.
Designed to encourage eligible school students to use their creativity to create their own interpretation of the Google logo, the Doodle 4 Google has gone through 25 countries across the globe over the last 15 years and managed to solicit thousands of creative ideas, according to the search giant.
The Google’s doodlers, a team of talented illustrators and engineers, have created over 2,000 doodles for the search giant’s homepages around the world since 2000.
Below are the doodles in the previous Children's Day in various countries.
For South Korea, 2014
For Japan, 2014
For Russia, 2013
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