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...With their hardcover bindings, thick paper stock and clean design, D&Q's long-form graphic novels defy preconceptions of what a comic should look like. These are keepsakes, not comics to be thrown away. Indeed, Oliveros, 38, has published nearly all of today's top talent, including Chris Ware, Joe Sacco and underground legend Robert Crumb. By showcasing national artists, he has almost single-handedly turned Canada into a major source of cartooning talent...
Many young designers, including Lian Ng of San Francisco--based Publique Living, are molding and braiding wood. "There is a lot more use of wood in nontraditional applications," says Ng, a former graphic designer who creates lamps out of strips of maple or walnut veneer that are then woven into braided patterns. "With so many new products, I wanted something that is innovative yet familiar at the same time...
Searching for an excuse to play with toys without looking like a case of arrested development? Meet the urban toys. Like regular toys, they come in all materials, sizes, shapes and prices, but they're created by fashion designers, graffiti artists and underground illustrator--graphic artists like Michael Lau and Pete Fowler, and produced in limited quantities. "They are as much art as they are toys," says Paul Budnitz, owner of Kidrobot, an urban-toy boutique with outlets in San Francisco and New York City. Budnitz, whose two brick-and-mortar stores opened within a year of each other...
...audience isn't just pop-culture art collectors. Moms, dads, kids and stars including Robin Williams, Mike Myers and Christina Aguilera have been known to pick up quirky, irreverent and highly aesthetic dolls, teddy bears and the like at hip urban-toy stores such as Budnitz's. "Having graphic or graffiti artists involved makes these toys fresh looking and adds depth, but you don't need to go deep to enjoy them," he says. As for what the artists get out of the experience, Keanan Duffty, the edgy British fashion designer, says, "I always try to be innovative...
...Yizkor Book Project website, www.jewishgen.org/yizkor is making these books available in English for the first time. Also Translated: descriptions of lost communities compiled by Israel's Holocaust museum Yad Vashem. The website boasts 584 entries describing some 450 disappeared communities, listed from A to Z, with 9,096 graphic images. A searchable database of necrologies retrieves different spellings of family names...