Google Celebrates Valentine's Day With Pop Art Logo (PICTURE)

Google is wishing its users a "Happy Valentine's Day" with a colorful, pop art-inspired logo based on an image by artist Robert Indiana.

The Valentine's Day Google logo borrows the same typeface and color scheme Indiana employed in his 1964 LOVE design, which was used for the Museum Of Modern Art's holiday card, according to the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail, adds, "The design was turned into a sculpture in New York City in 1970 and has been exhibited at the Indianapolis Museum Of Art since 1975." Additional LOVE sculptures can be found throughout the U.S. and even abroad, such as at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Pratt Institute in New York, as well as in Taipei, Bilbao, and Lisbon, among other locales.

See Google's doodle, and Indiana's original, below.

Comments

[Anthony Lee Vanover]

04:51 AM on 02/15/2011

The logo looks completely like RATM's Renegades album cover. I posted about it on facebook on the morning of Valentine's day. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1846482&l=6ac8b31110&id=1519881814

[john 77002]

10:13 PM on 02/14/2011

check out this curious Valentine's Day logo redesign: http://bit.ly/9L1AvV

[Vytautas Kerbelis]

02:02 PM on 02/14/2011

To all my friends in the billionaire club what I offer is three persian cats of John Lennon twelve polaroid photos that have special magic. The mystery is in the nature of volcanic zone kept for now 30 years. Yoko soon to be 78 is on 18th day which has a particular lunar influence. The black, white brown cats go for a billion dollars each and you will never regret this offer made to you. Meantime Huffpost will establish a banking service to connect account for all the people who have a way for a better world. Come on give it a thought on this day special.

[amedio3k]

01:55 PM on 02/14/2011

I thought this looked familiar. I'm a big fan of pop art...in fact, I was just perusing Charles Fazzino's site of 3D pop art (http://www.fazzino.com) before I stumbled across this article.. Good stuff!

[elicourey]

12:37 PM on 02/14/2011

It reminds me of Rage Against the Machine's Renegades album cover.