--- title: John Venn Google Doodle of Venn Diagram description: On what would have been the 180th birthday of the Venn Diagram creator canonical: https://time.com/3079364/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-the-art-of-the-venn-diagram/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-04T14:42:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:43:25.776Z og:title: Today's Google Doodle Celebrates the Art of the Venn Diagram og:description: Making logic cute and whimsical og:url: https://time.com/3079364/todays-google-doodle-celebrates-the-art-of-the-venn-diagram/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Today's Google Doodle Celebrates the Art of the Venn Diagram twitter:description: Making logic cute and whimsical twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Today's Google Doodle Celebrates the Art of the Venn Diagram ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 4, 2014 2:42 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 4, 2014 2:42 PM UTC  Correlation has never looked this cute. Google created an interactive illustration in honor of the 180th birthday of logician and philosopher John Venn — best known, of course, for inventing the circles known as the Venn diagram. The doodle allows you to choose from five different subjects (mammals and sea life, for example) along with five descriptors (thrives in cold, has wings, etc.) and then see the resulting correlation. Okay, it sounds kind of boring, but it’s really quite cute and whimsical. Check out some of the diagrams:    Though the concept behind this seems pretty simple, it took quite a while to flesh out, the doodle team explains in a [blog post](https://www.google.com/doodles/john-venns-180th-birthday). 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