A fairly interesting story for Turkish people today comes from The Official Google Blog, by Marissa Meyer and Michael Lopez: the new favicon of Google.

Since Google’s new favicon launch in June, apparently many users have been submitting a large volume (quoting Google Blog here) of works to Google. Among them, a beautiful one created by Andre Resende was chosen. The part about Turkish people lie in runner-ups, as two of the three runner-ups mentioned in the blog are Turkish: Hadi Onur Demirsoy and Yusuf Sevgen. The other runner-up is Lucian E. Marin, a Romanian designer.

It struck me in the first glance that Turkish people got such a design talent. It is my hope that in the near future, such level of expertise transform into web service building capacity as I have been disappointed by the lack of influential Turkish web products and services in the global scene.