Akira Yoshizawa Google Doodle

Akira Yoshizawa A Google Doodle


Akira Yoshizawa was born on March 14, 1911. His parents were dairy farmers, but he moved to Tokyo when he was just 13 years old to take a job in a factory. When he was in his early 20s, he was promoted from his factory worker position to a job as a technical draftsman

As part of his duties, he was responsible for teaching new employees basic geometry. He decided to use origami, which he had learned as a child, as a teaching tool to make these lessons easier to understand.

In 1937, Akira Yoshizawa quit his factory job to practice origami on a full-time basis. He essentially lived in poverty

a master paper folder widely acclaimed as the father of modern origami, died on March 14, his 94th birthday, at a hospital near his home in Ogikubo, a suburb of Tokyo.

The cause was complications of pneumonia, said June Sakamoto, a board member of Origami USA, based in New York.

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Valentine's Day google doodle

Valentine's Day google doodle

HAPPY Valentine's Day 

Today, Google is celebrating Valentine’s Day the world over with a charming animated “Doodle” that is free of dialogue — yet is all heart. In some countries,

n the animation’s sweet story, a boy seeks the best way to show his affection for a girl adept at skipping rope and rebuffing amorous advances. The lad taps Google in his quest to woo her, but his online searches for flowers and chocolates and colorful balloons — all the ol’ trite-and-true go-to gifts for Valentine’s Day — prove fruitless in real time. The girl is unmoved. Even a top hat containing a peek-a-boo bunny holds no romantic magic.

Valentine’s Day, of course, has a long and winding history that runs from the martyred Saint Valentine (a third-century Roman priest who is said to have been executed on Feb. 14 for standing up for Christian marriage), through the towering poetic pen of Geoffrey Chaucer through the adoption of cherubic Cupid up to, well, the rhyming pen of Hallmark.

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