Google Doodle gets new look for National Indigenous People’s Day
Anishinaabe artist based in Montreal chosen to come up with design
Each letter in the word Google represents a pictograph of the type seen in Great Lakes rock art, says artist Nico Williams. Williams was tasked with redesigning the logo in honour of National Indigenous Peoples Day, which falls on June 21. (Graphic courtesy of Google)
Google’s homepage is getting a makeover for National Indigenous People’s Day.
Montreal-based Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams designed this year’s Google Doodle with a graphic inspired by the Great Lakes region and Anishinaabe iconography.
His use of deep blue and navy colours represents fresh water across the Indigenous territories between the U.S. and Canada, Williams said Sunday in a news release about his design.
Williams is from Aamjiwnaang First Nation, located in southwestern Ontario.
“We are surrounded by the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and I wanted the colour palette to celebrate that,” he said.
Montreal-based Anishinaabe artist Nico Williams points at an example of an Indigenous pictograph which inspired his beadwork design for National Indigenous People’s Day’s Google Doodle. (Photo courtesy of Google)
The Google letters represent Great Lakes rock art, with flashes of orange pictographs symbolizing Indigenous iconography like Mishipeshu, the Great Lynx or Nanabozho, the great trickster, he said.
June 21 is the 30th anniversary of National Indigenous Peoples Day.
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