--- title: Independence Day Google Doodle Celebrates July 4 With Lawn Chairs description: Inspired by memories of July 4ths past canonical: https://time.com/3945747/google-doodle-independence-day/ author: Dan Stewart article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-04T12:34:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:21.485Z og:title: Google Doodle Celebrates July 4 With Lawn Chairs og:description: And a couple of mischievous pets og:url: https://time.com/3945747/google-doodle-independence-day/ 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: Google Doodle Celebrates July 4 With Lawn Chairs twitter:description: And a couple of mischievous pets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Google Doodle Brings Out Lawn Chairs to Celebrate 4th of July ## 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 [Dan Stewart](https://time.com/author/dan-stewart/)  ## Dan Stewart Jul 4, 2015 12:34 PM UTC  by [Dan Stewart](https://time.com/author/dan-stewart/)  ## Dan Stewart Jul 4, 2015 12:34 PM UTC Google has brought out a set of lawn chairs — and a couple of pets — for its [doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/fourth-of-july-2015) celebrating Independence Day. The artist, San Francisco-based Brian Kaas, [explained](https://www.google.com/doodles/fourth-of-july-2015) the illustration was inspired by his own memories of July 4 block parties. “I spent a lot of my summers sitting on a lawn chair with my neighbors, friends and family,” he said. “When we would get up, the neighborhood pets would often steal our seats.” Google’s previous July 4 doodles have featured a lot of red white and blue — but this year the Stars and Stripes just put in a cameo, with two small flags sitting in a vase next to a jug of lemonade. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3945747/google-doodle-independence-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3945747/google-doodle-independence-day/"},"headline":"Google Doodle Brings Out Lawn Chairs to Celebrate 4th of July","datePublished":"2015-07-04T12:34:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:21.485Z","description":"Inspired by memories of Independence Days past","url":"https://time.com/3945747/google-doodle-independence-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google Doodle"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Dan Stewart","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/dan-stewart/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3945747/google-doodle-independence-day/","name":"Google Doodle Brings Out Lawn Chairs to Celebrate 4th of July"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"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","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3945747/google-doodle-independence-day/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3945747/google-doodle-independence-day/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```