Google doodle could take David off to California

Nov 12 2007 by David Higgerson, Liverpool Daily Post

David Keatinge with his Google Design _320

SOME artists wait all their life for their works to be seen by a global audience. Others don’t achieve such acclaim until after they are dead.

David Keatinge may well achieve such lofty heights before he reaches the age of 10.

The West Derby schoolboy is on a national shortlist to have his work on the home page of Google, the world’s most popular internet search engine.

David, nine, a pupil at Blackmoor Park Junior School, has already been named the regional winner of a competition run by Google to come up with different designs for its famously simple logo.

If his design is now voted as the best in Britain, he will see his design embedded onto the Google homepage for a day.

Already, his schoolfriends have got behind him in a “vote for David” campaign – and now the young artist is hoping the rest of the city will do too.

Another incentive to win is the fact he will get to go to California to see his creation go from paper to screen with Dennis Hwang, “Google's Master Doodler”.

David said: “I love drawing and think it would be brilliant to see my doodle on the Internet and work alongside Dennis in California. “Perhaps worryingly, David sees a future which involves big green monsters.

He added: “It's about creatures and flying things with rockets. I get a jetpack. There are conveyor belts from the fridge to get food easily.”

Oliver Rickman from Google said it was his imagination which had seen David make the shortlist.

* VOTE for David at www.google.co.uk/doodle4google/vote and select the five to nine-year-old category and look for David’s design or alternatively visit www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk and click on the link.

davidhiggerson@dailypost.co.uk