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People‘s Graphic Design Archive @peoplesgdarchive.bsky.social · 3h

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2h

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

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 5h

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 · 6h

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 · 2d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 2d

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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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 2d

Next time! 🤗

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 2d

Hey #kidlit, Do you have a picture-book-dummy that you could use some constructive feedback on? I want to help!

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 15d

Hey #kidlit illustrators! I'll be presenting my “Kid Lit Illustration Dos and Don’ts” talk to “At Home Author” on October 23rd, and will also be offering portfolio/picture-dummy reviews.

Register today! 💙❤️

▶️▶️▶️ www.athomeauthor.com/service-page...

The first slide of my Kid Lit Illustration Dos and Don'ts talk.

1. Your Site
2. Your Social
3. Your Portfolio
4. Your Deal
5. Your Process

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 5d

While in flight to Los Angeles to present at the SCBWI Southern California Conference I’m critiquing dummies for SCBWI Florida and Michigan.

💙❤️ @scbwi.bsky.social

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 6d

And tomorrow too, to accommodate Yom Kippur!

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 9d

omg time flies friendly reminder that october’s #KidLitArtPostcard is this thursday 💙❤️

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 6d

Yay! Thanks for coming to it!!

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 6d

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Andrea Wickert @librarymusthaves.bsky.social · 6d

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard Day, the amazing monthly challenge from @ginaperry.bsky.social

This is my first time sharing both here and on Instagram and an extra special thanks for that goes out to @brianlarossa.com for encouraging us all to jump in here every month!

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 6d

TODAY!!!

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 9d

omg time flies friendly reminder that october’s #KidLitArtPostcard is this thursday 💙❤️

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 6d

This morning I became slightly obsessed with the history of the phrase “everything in its time” and then “every thing in its time” and then the etymology of the word “thing” and learned that it once meant a gathering of people.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 7d

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 7d

Hypothesis: it makes us more flexible and resilient across the board.

Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 7d

Would love to see research on how the high volume of feedback designers are asked to metabolize every day impacts their personality traits and personal lives.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 7d

Would love to see research on how the high volume of feedback designers are asked to metabolize every day impacts their personality traits and personal lives.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 8d

Hot take: unsalted/salted butter is a scam dreamed up to sell more butter don’t @ me with your baking expertise.

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 8d

is this the first product from the national design studio? trying to track how gebbia’s “apple store experience” design ethos gets eaten up by techno-fascism and regurgitated into 80s–90s-style ad campaign trash

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 9d

Posted this 14 months ago. Still holds true! I view #KidLitArtPostcard as a cornerstone of this community building. 💙❤️

debbieohi.com/2021/09/kidl...

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Brian LaRossa @brianlarossa.com · 9d

omg time flies friendly reminder that october’s #KidLitArtPostcard is this thursday 💙❤️

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