Church of the Customer recently pointed out how brave google was with it’s logo, eschewing some of the more “fundamentalist” brand tenants of logo worship, or putting your logo on a pedestal, by creating different logos to celebrate or recognize things/events/people.
The specific logo they were pointing to was the google braille logo, celebrating Louis Braille’s birthday. I had seen this logo earlier, but due to my crappy internet connection all I saw was the epitome of logo irony, namely the alt text for the braille logo:
It didn’t take long for the actual logo to finally arrive but long enough for me to take a screen shot and have a good laugh:
In many ways it illustrates the importance of “brand architecture” as opposed to a “brand monolith”. Brand architecture is a framework within which designers can be creative. The monolithic approach to branding kills creativity.
BTW take a look at all of google’s holiday logo’s here and for even more brand crazyness take a look at google’s fan art logo’s (WARNING: not for the brand manager who is faint of heart 
How about this:
