Rejected Google Holiday Logos

Have you known that Google often making its logos on every celebrate?

Here there are lists of rejected Google holiday logos:


Supposed to be celebrating: Children’s Day 2003.

Reason for rejection: Too childish.


Supposed to be celebrating: 150 Years of Cigarettes.

Reason for rejection: Too politically incorrect.


Supposed to be celebrating: 50th Anniversary of Product Placement.

Reason for rejection: Starbucks didn’t pay enough.




Supposed to be celebrating: 5 Years of Google motto “Don’t be evil.”

Reason for rejection: Too self-obsessed.





Supposed to be celebrating: 130th Birthday of Mondrian.

Reason for rejection: Too abstract.


Supposed to be celebrating: 90th Anniversary of the Copyright Act.

Reason for rejection: Potential trademark infringement for using the © symbol.


Supposed to be celebrating: 20th Anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Reason for rejection: Severe complaints by the Pet Duck Association.


Supposed to be celebrating: The 65th Birthday of Googol, a 1 with 100 zeroes.

Reason for rejection: Too geeky.


Supposed to be celebrating: This was one of two drafts to honor M.C. Escher.

Reason for rejection: Too creepy.


Supposed to be celebrating: Two decades of the JPEG image compression algorithm.

Reason for rejection: Compression too lossy.