Dive Summary:
- Dan Morrill, an Android engineer at Google, shared four examples via Google+ of earlier Android mascot designs.
- Google eventually settled on its famous Bugdroid design to represent the Android brand, but three much sketchier robots were temporarily passed around internally.
- The so-called "Dandroid" were created by Irina Blok, according to Morrill.
From the article:
"... They had a brief flurry of minor popularity amongst the team -- enough to pick up the nickname 'Dandroids', anyway. But then +Irina Blok (as I recall) presented her work: the bugdroid we all know and love. Funny how the professional work is of vastly higher quality than the amateur, isn't it? ;) Even so, these guys have the distinction of being the first proposed mascots for Android (that I'm aware of, at least.) ..."
