Squeak of the Week

Mr. Taxali, an illustrator based in Toronto whose work has appeared in publications like Time, Newsweek and Fortune, received a call in April from a member of Google’s marketing department. According to Mr. Taxali, the Google representative explained that the project will let users customize Google Chrome pages with artist-designed “skins” in their borders. “The first question I asked,” Mr. Taxali said in a recent interview, “is ‘What’s the fee?’” Mr. Taxali said that when he was told Google would pay nothing, he declined. Read more»