Brian LaRossa
@brianlarossa.com
Executive Art Director at Scholastic (Picture Books). Lecturer at CCNY (Design Criticism). Writer of Fiction (Agent: @liznealon.bsky.social). Speaker (SCBWI et al.). 523rd Bluesky account. Born ATL. Live NYC. He/Him. 💙❤️
www.brianlarossa.com
www.brianlarossa.com
bravo canada bravo
Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
bravo canada bravo
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The 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards | 100 Scope Notes
And the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards Go To . . .
Announcing the winners of the 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards!
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The 2025 Undies Case Cover Awards | 100 Scope Notes
Late to this news. 💙💔
Coming up in the wild and wooly ska scene of 1990s ATL I WORSHIPED The Harder They Come. WORSHIPED. IT.
Rest in peace Jimmy. You were one of the greatest to ever do it.
🏁😭
youtu.be/kGeCeK85sUg?...
Coming up in the wild and wooly ska scene of 1990s ATL I WORSHIPED The Harder They Come. WORSHIPED. IT.
Rest in peace Jimmy. You were one of the greatest to ever do it.
🏁😭
youtu.be/kGeCeK85sUg?...
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers To Cross
YouTube video by worldsgreatestmusic
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Late to this news. 💙💔
Coming up in the wild and wooly ska scene of 1990s ATL I WORSHIPED The Harder They Come. WORSHIPED. IT.
Rest in peace Jimmy. You were one of the greatest to ever do it.
🏁😭
youtu.be/kGeCeK85sUg?...
Coming up in the wild and wooly ska scene of 1990s ATL I WORSHIPED The Harder They Come. WORSHIPED. IT.
Rest in peace Jimmy. You were one of the greatest to ever do it.
🏁😭
youtu.be/kGeCeK85sUg?...
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
People continue to assume they know what other people want instead of just… asking them.
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 12:56 AM
People continue to assume they know what other people want instead of just… asking them.
Making an effort to add more compliments in my portfolio reviews. I think I've been a little too harsh this year. I metabolize and meter out such an INSANE volume of feedback all day every day in performing my job as an art director it's easy to forget that others are less accustomed to it. #kidlit
November 22, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Making an effort to add more compliments in my portfolio reviews. I think I've been a little too harsh this year. I metabolize and meter out such an INSANE volume of feedback all day every day in performing my job as an art director it's easy to forget that others are less accustomed to it. #kidlit
Saying things is overrated. Going to spend the second half of my life just listening and doing.
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Saying things is overrated. Going to spend the second half of my life just listening and doing.
The average person would be shocked to learn how much time and effort goes into crafting a typeface.
The only thing I’ve clocked more hours on than a typeface is a novel.
The only thing I’ve clocked more hours on than a typeface is a novel.
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The average person would be shocked to learn how much time and effort goes into crafting a typeface.
The only thing I’ve clocked more hours on than a typeface is a novel.
The only thing I’ve clocked more hours on than a typeface is a novel.
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Resistance also = appreciating and elevating the work of real artists and creators! #theoa2025
November 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Resistance also = appreciating and elevating the work of real artists and creators! #theoa2025
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Hey #kidlt, if you visit the show in the next month or so before it comes down (and you should if you’re in NYC and love picture books) be sure to use the official Original Art Show hashtag (below) to help give the show, and the work, more visibility here on Bluesky.
#theoa2025
#theoa2025
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hey #kidlt, if you visit the show in the next month or so before it comes down (and you should if you’re in NYC and love picture books) be sure to use the official Original Art Show hashtag (below) to help give the show, and the work, more visibility here on Bluesky.
#theoa2025
#theoa2025
Hey #kidlt, if you visit the show in the next month or so before it comes down (and you should if you’re in NYC and love picture books) be sure to use the official Original Art Show hashtag (below) to help give the show, and the work, more visibility here on Bluesky.
#theoa2025
#theoa2025
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Hey #kidlt, if you visit the show in the next month or so before it comes down (and you should if you’re in NYC and love picture books) be sure to use the official Original Art Show hashtag (below) to help give the show, and the work, more visibility here on Bluesky.
#theoa2025
#theoa2025
November 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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#JobAlert! The Eyebeam center for arts & technology seeks a new Executive Director: eyebeam.org/executive-di...
Eyebeam launches the search for the next Executive Director | Eyebeam
Eyebeam invests in artists who create with technology and explore how it influences the way we live.
eyebeam.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
#JobAlert! The Eyebeam center for arts & technology seeks a new Executive Director: eyebeam.org/executive-di...
Been explaining the difference between typography and lettering A LOT lately, for some reason.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Been explaining the difference between typography and lettering A LOT lately, for some reason.
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All my Goodnight Moonheads lining up at midnight for a first look at the Goodnight Moon suite. The Goodnight Moon fandom has been clamoring for this www.boston.com/travel/trave...
Look inside Sheraton Boston's whimsical new Goodnight Moon suite
Look inside Sheraton Boston's whimsical new limited-time Goodnight Moon suite, which is available through Feb. 28, 2026.
www.boston.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
All my Goodnight Moonheads lining up at midnight for a first look at the Goodnight Moon suite. The Goodnight Moon fandom has been clamoring for this www.boston.com/travel/trave...
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A HUGE shoutout of thanks to @brianlarossa.com for his incredible artistic insight during my portfolio review at the @scbwi.bsky.social Florida Critique Fest. Life and career changing, and SO encouraging. Finally free to be me…
November 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
A HUGE shoutout of thanks to @brianlarossa.com for his incredible artistic insight during my portfolio review at the @scbwi.bsky.social Florida Critique Fest. Life and career changing, and SO encouraging. Finally free to be me…
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Hardcover is an elegant new serif typeface for display use. It's one of my earliest typeface ideas, dating back to a sketch in 1978, inspired by the lettering I’d seen on mass-market book covers. More info here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... And here: www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/h...
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Hardcover is an elegant new serif typeface for display use. It's one of my earliest typeface ideas, dating back to a sketch in 1978, inspired by the lettering I’d seen on mass-market book covers. More info here: www.marksimonson.com/notebook/vie... And here: www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/h...
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The 2018 World Chess Championships logo was something else.
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🏁
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Hey illustrators/agents!
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hey illustrators/agents!
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
I’m a #kidlit art director starting work on a new picture book—we’re looking for: expressive, commercial, human characters; texture (printmakingish); AND BATS! Lively, active, swarming BATS!
Please respond w/ samples + folio link.
Please no emails/DMs.
💙❤️ #artcommissions
For this reason, I frame reading too as a creative practice.
The difference between the page and the screen is that the act of reading itself is a creative process. You have to create the world being presented on the page in your mind. The screen hands it all to you.
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For this reason, I frame reading too as a creative practice.
The difference between the page and the screen is that the act of reading itself is a creative process. You have to create the world being presented on the page in your mind. The screen hands it all to you.
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The difference between the page and the screen is that the act of reading itself is a creative process. You have to create the world being presented on the page in your mind. The screen hands it all to you.
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Utterly baffled why people are still active on there. Just … don’t.
November 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Utterly baffled why people are still active on there. Just … don’t.
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Just poked my head into my mothballed twitter account and my notifications are nothing but alerts about new Yaxley-Lennon posts. I mean, I knew it was crap over there now, but good lord.
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Just poked my head into my mothballed twitter account and my notifications are nothing but alerts about new Yaxley-Lennon posts. I mean, I knew it was crap over there now, but good lord.
The way blue and red vibrate together is the way I feel all the time.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The way blue and red vibrate together is the way I feel all the time.