Jun 11, 2010
World Cup 2010 Final
This Doodle’s Key Themes
The artwork for this was well underway before the end of the World Cup games, aside from which flags would be displayed (for the longest time, the working draft said "Your Country Here" – similar to empty billboard ads). As soon as we found out who the finalists were, I set to work drawing the two country flags in... doing my best to distribute them equally throughout the stadium, without any show of favoritism (I won't say who I was rooting for)! That said, it was pretty funny to discover that users thought we were predicting Spain's victory, since the balloons were hanging over their flag in the doodle... but hey, we all know there was a certain octopus who had that job pretty well covered. Did we google his prediction before finishing this doodle? Hmm...
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