Burning Man Festival: Google Doodle celebrates 20 years

The opportunity to paint a portrait of the event that has changed since its inception.

The festival in the Nevada desert is in full swing after a chaotic first day. The opportunity to paint a portrait of the event that has changed since its inception.

Thousands of tents, campers, rudimentary installations, Burning Man is a giant campsite in the middle of the desert. But it is above all an artistic and festive rendezvous unique in the world, seen by the participants (called "burners") as the experience of a lifetime. 

Nine days of music, exhibitions, ephemeral works, in a hostile environment, made of sand and sun. 

In 1986, on the beach of Baker Beach, a beach in San Francisco, California, two artists, Larry Harvey, and Jerry James build a wooden effigy of a man, then set it on fire. From then this festival started.

Also, over the past two decades, a team of talented designers has created thousands of illustrated, animated, and interactive variations of Google Doodle.

In 1998 Google's founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin played with the company logo to indicate they were going to the Burning Man festival, it was the "out of the office" message for Google users. Begins the idea of changing the logo.