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The evolution of the Google logo has already been extensively chronicled. But what about the search engine's specialty pics? You know, whenever it's Valentine's Day or Election Day and Google just throws a little something special into the mix? We went back 10 years to find our favorite designs that celebrate about every holiday/birthday/anniversary imaginable (and some you probably wouldn't have imagined, had it not been for Google. All hail Google!).
Google's first novelty logo rang in the new millennium:


There were some semi-interesting logo mock-ups in the 2001-2003 years, like for Korea's Liberation Day:


and M.C. Escher's birthday:

But in 2006 Google designers really started to experiment with celebratory logos, like this one for Louis Braille's birthday:

and Edvard Munch's:

But the best logos started around 2 years ago. We're going to place the change right during Lego's 50th anniversary in 2008:


or June's Diego Velázquez logoscape:

An anniversary for the invention of the laser? Definitely:

Or when we all thought the Large Hadron Collider was going to implode and open up an alternative dimension? Google was there:

To celebrate Jackson Pollock's 2009 birthday, Google got wasted, told the conventional art world to screw itself, and then just put up one of Pollock's paintings:

Sometimes Google is too clever for its own good, just like Russian literature:

Yo, Comic-Con gets its own Google logo. SF nerds unite!

We expect great things from Google 2010. The Winter Olympics symbols alone were pieces of art: