About this creation

Google and LEGO have a fun and special history... The Google company founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are both avid lovers of LEGO toys, as are many of the company's employees.
This is the second LEGO Google sculpture that I've made for Google, and is installed in the lobby of their new office building in Copenhagen, Denmark. (The other one is installed in Google's New York office.)

To translate the two-dimensional logo into a three-dimensional sculpture, I decided to do a few interesting things. In Google's logo, the lettering is always shown on a white background, with a light grey "drop shadow". And the letters themselves are made to look like they have a bit of depth and roundness.
First, I opted to hang the logo on a white wall, so that the wall itself becomes the negative space around the logo. Next, I suspended the letters outwards so they seem to float in mid-air above their little grey shadows. And the letters themselves have a subtle bit of depth and curvature to them, so that when lit correctly, they appear to have the same highlights and shadows in the logo.

It was important that the elegant, thin lines of Google's logo not be distracted by the structural supports; I think this design is very clean-looking and subtle, yet very sturdy.


The sculpture extends about 4 inches (10 cm) from the wall and is 40 inches (1 meter) in length.
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September 30, 2011 |
It looks so realistic! This is your second google logo right? |
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Oliver King September 29, 2011 |
how many bricks did it take |
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Darth Legor August 16, 2011 |
Amazing! incredible! |
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May 17, 2011 |
I love Google! =) |
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March 7, 2011 |
how much could i buy that for |
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March 27, 2010 |
Best engie out there. Well done on the shadow! |
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February 1, 2010 |
Awesome job Sean! =D
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January 15, 2010 |
Cool! By the way, Sean, have you considered removing the Moc stealer named ryan galli? I'm very happy you deleted his swipes, but you should get rid of him entirely. |
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September 29, 2009 |
awesome.does google pay you?Or for your giant nintendo DS thing did they pay you?Because that would be a pretty cool way to make a living.if you possibly have the time it would be really cool if you could comment on one of my creations, I'd appreciate it a lot. Keep building!(as if anything could stop you) |
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September 12, 2009 |
awesome! that's cool! |
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August 7, 2009 |
Awesome! Nice of you to give it to Google as a gift! |
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July 1, 2009 |
cool. it looks kinnda real. nice work |
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May 25, 2009 |
i like how today the make different designs for the google website =-] |
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April 11, 2009 |
You are a Lego god! |
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February 12, 2009 |
This is very nicely done Sean, very smart.
God bless you =D |
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December 24, 2008 |
Sweet! You nailed the rounded effect. It looks exactly like the real thing! |
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December 19, 2008 |
Is it possible for you to ban a guy named Jeff Norton? He keeps spamming my pages, and will not quit. |
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Lord Patrick Leon December 18, 2008 |
Hi shaun, I just wanted to tell you that a guy wrote a comment on my new batman MOC. I deleted it but I just want you to know that he used some words and wrote some stuff that's pretty bad. |
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November 19, 2008 |
Awesome! Please check ou my MOCs! I would be honored! |
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November 17, 2008 |
WOW, this would look great over my bedroom door! Nice build! |
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November 16, 2008 |
Make one for Christmas. |
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Patrick Leon November 13, 2008 |
Cool!!! |
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November 8, 2008 |
very kewl... and that dude who gave it a 1 star knows NOTHING about lego! this is kewl! |
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November 6, 2008 |
man wouldn't that look nice on google's homepage. Awesome! |
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very poor. who wants to see the ''google logo'' supously you have to do your own creation not a thing that exist. |
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November 6, 2008 |
Preeeetyyy... I want one for my room. |
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November 6, 2008 |
cool |
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November 6, 2008 |
You're not mistaken. My stister showed me =] |
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November 6, 2008 |
excellent!google made a one-day banner announcing legos 50th birthday back in january...if I'm not mistaken..... |
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November 6, 2008 |
Awesome job!! I love Google =] |
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November 6, 2008 |
Very nice, you really captured 3D image well. =) |
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November 6, 2008 |
He just wrote that its in New York... Anyway, great work Sean! Great shadow effect, but to be honest, I prefer the other one you made.
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November 6, 2008 |
Thats awesome! I love the shadow effect. Do you still have the old google sighn or did you take it apart? |
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November 6, 2008 |
Thanks, everyone.. :) Mark -- There are some strategically placed 1x2 technic bricks built into the grey shadow, allowing you to drill screws through and fasten it to the wall. And double-sided mounting tape helps too. :) |
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November 6, 2008 |
Nice - the drop shadow looks great! I'd be curious to know how it hangs. |
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November 6, 2008 |
This is very cool. Congratulations! |
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November 5, 2008 |
I sure like that lettering concept. It's googlicious. I'm inspired to "borrow" that style to make a logo for my friend's new comic shop. see ya. garth |
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November 5, 2008 |
Right the friggin' split-second when I saw this on the homepage I had just finished asking the person next to me why they used msn search instead of google. Freaky coincidence, but beautiful moc all the same |
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November 5, 2008 |
Very well done Sean! I don't know why you build Google so much, but you're very good at recreating it! PS: I was if you can take a ook at my 2nd newest MOC's comments. It has been severely spammed. I do still have the repost up, but I really want the spammer gone for good, so he can't do anymore harm. On the spammed version of the Micro-Scale Blue Eagle, there are a bunch of 1 smiley comments with a guy going by the name "." who duplicated his comments to intensify the spam. Anyway, I was wondering if you can possibly ban his Internet from accessing MOCpages. Please delete this comment as soon as you get back to me. Thank you for your time. ~Phong Chang |
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November 5, 2008 |
Piece of art! as usual from the best builder in the world :) keep it up >>> peace.. Fofo |
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