Ruth Kedar

Ruth Kedar is a Brazilian-born artist and designer known for designing the Google logo used from 1999 to 2015.

born 1955Designing the Google logoPlaying card deck designCo-founding Art.Net

Born: 27 January 1955, Campinas
Occupation: designer
Education: Stanford University, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Ruth Kedar was born in 1955 in Campinas

Ruth Kedar was born on January 27, 1955, in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. She later moved to Israel.

In Israel she earned a degree in architecture from the Technion. She then moved to the United States for a master's program in design at Stanford University, where her thesis dealt with playing card design.

Adobe Systems commissioned her as one of the designers of the Adobe Deck, a promotional card deck made in 1988. She also designed the Analog Deck and the Duolog Deck, which won awards. From 1988 to 1999 she was a visiting art professor at Stanford, and during that time Larry Page and Sergey Brin hired her to design the Google logo and website.

Her Google logo used the custom Catull typeface and was displayed from May 31, 1999 to September 1, 2015. She is one of the founders of the Art.Net site, where she has shown her online studio since 1994. She also holds a 5th degree black belt in Aikido and teaches at Aikido West in Redwood City, California.