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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 14h

Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 11h

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 14h

Popping into #portfolioday on behalf of art directors to say thank you for sharing your work. It makes our job easier. We appreciate you.
💙❤️

Also, FWIW, I made a starter pack of hiring art-, creative-, design-directors who actively use Bluesky.
go.bsky.app/Hxoz9KX

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 14h

design is caring made artifact

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 1d

Angel DeCora; binding, title page, and initials; Wigwam Stories; 1901–1909

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we honor Angel DeCora, a Ho-Chunk artist whose lettering filled books like this one. letterformarchive.org/news/angel-d...

#IndigenousPeoplesDay #AngelDeCora #Lettering #BookDesign #HoChunk

Binding of a book showing the front cover and spine. The cover has a “WIGWAM STORIES” title featuring triangular lettering.

Title page of Wigwam Stories with the following text:

WIGWAM STORIES
TOLD BY NORTH
AMERICAN INDIANS
COMPILED BY
MARY CATHERINE JUDD
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ANGEL de CORA
(CHINOOK • MAHIWI • KILINAKA)
BOSTON • USA
GINN & COMPANY
ATHENAEUM PRESS
1909

Cropped detail of a page from Wigwam Stories showing a drop cap “A” made of tree branches with a wolf peering through.

Cropped detail of a page from Wigwam Stories showing a drop cap “A” made of curved lines and surrounded by phases of the moon. A woman inside the “A” looks upward.

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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 1d

To celebrate our 10th anniversary, Letterform Archive partnered with the San Francisco office of COLLINS on 100 Tens — 50 “1”s from the Archive’s collection paired with 50 new works from a range of today’s leading designers.

#LetterformArchive #100Tens

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 1d

Quality threads like this remind me of peak early Twitter.

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Apr 13

Look at what this 1982 text-based tolkien video game was doing en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hob...

The Hobbit (1982 video game) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 1d

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Apr 13

Look at what this 1982 text-based tolkien video game was doing en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hob...

The Hobbit (1982 video game) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 2d

or is that asking too much

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 2d

pls help me find the baseline: is there any air mattress on earth capable of remaining inflated until morning?

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 2d

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Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 2d

Kani Bucho, an office boss with an entire crab for a head, is the mascot for Yokobiki, a company that makes metal roller shutters for store windows.

A mascot in a blue suit with a red crab for a head enters a building.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 4d

Agree! It’s very cruel. 💔

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 4d

An illustrator alerted me to the attached email. Someone is impersonating me! Offering #kidlit illustrators fake deals!

This is not me! The deal-structure/schedule is insane. The deadline is quite friendly?! 10 picture books in 3 years?!

Please let me know if you receive an email like this!

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 4d

Hang in there illustrators, I see you fighting that good fight.

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 5d

Bluesky being “make your own algorithm it can even be none” is why I will cling to this app as long as possible

J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think an algo has taken over bluesky... yet

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 5d

headed to peter luger tonight because my sons are… 13?! 🤯🫥🫠

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 5d

lol cosign don’t @ me xo

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 5d

Trying to be chill about it but after many years of tremendous, quiet, effort my novel is out on sub. 😅

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People‘s Graphic Design Archive @peoplesgdarchive.bsky.social · 6d

Totes are here!

A limited number of tote bags are available for all donations of $50 or more. Link in bio to donate now!

📚 Help us write the history of design! By donating, you’re not just giving money—you’re helping preserve history for generations to come. Donate now.

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 6d

Jim Lee confirms DC Comics will not support AI-generated storytelling or art

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 6d

If the Sun was replaced by a black hole of equal mass the orbits of the planets would be unaffected.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 6d

Hi! I’m giving a talk in November where I’ll go deep into how to shape your dummies. You’re welcome to join!

Short answer: start with a title page.
bsky.app/profile/bria...

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 8d

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I'll be (virtually✨) presenting my “Design Can Make or Break Your Picture-Book-Dummy” talk to the Maryland chapter of @scbwi.bsky.social on November 3rd @ 7PM, and will also be offering portfolio/picture-dummy reviews.

Register today! 💙❤️

▶️▶️▶️ www.scbwi.org/events/MDDEW...

The open slide of my "Design Can Make or Break Your Picture-Book-Dummy" presentation:

1. Your Book
2. Your Layout
3. Your Typography
4. Your Art
5. Your Pitch

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 7d

i’ve said it from the start i’m here until this place 404s and then i'm done with social media this is my ”its fine” burning room

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Mirka Hokkanen @mirkahokkanen.bsky.social · 8d

Our chapter is hosting Brian over for a really interesting talk on typography + picturebooks. Tickets $15 for SCBWI members. Happening Nov 3rd at 7pm. #mddewvscbwi #kidlit #picturebooks

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 8d

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I'll be (virtually✨) presenting my “Design Can Make or Break Your Picture-Book-Dummy” talk to the Maryland chapter of @scbwi.bsky.social on November 3rd @ 7PM, and will also be offering portfolio/picture-dummy reviews.

Register today! 💙❤️

▶️▶️▶️ www.scbwi.org/events/MDDEW...

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