Brian LaRossa
@brianlarossa.com
Executive Art Director at Scholastic (Picture Books). Lecturer at City College (Design Criticism). Writer of Fiction (Repped by: @liznealon.bsky.social). Speaker (SCBWI et al.). 523rd Bluesky account. Born ATL. Live NYC. He/Him. www.brianlarossa.com. 💙❤️
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Brian LaRossa
@brianlarossa.com
· Oct 6
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...
Register today! 💙❤️
▶️▶️▶️ www.scbwi.org/events/MDDEW...
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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.
Just signed up to teach typography at Pratt in the Spring. PUMPED!
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just signed up to teach typography at Pratt in the Spring. PUMPED!
I still 💙❤️ Bluesky.
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I still 💙❤️ Bluesky.
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
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this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"
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I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not
Next stop midterms. LEZZGO!
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Next stop midterms. LEZZGO!
November 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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NBC, The New York Times, and most importantly @hellgatenyc.com call the NYC mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani.
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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i’m just basking in the knowledge that lots of bad people across the nation are absolutely freaking out right now
Republicans who think your seat is safe: no it's not
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
i’m just basking in the knowledge that lots of bad people across the nation are absolutely freaking out right now
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🐪Let’s show you how Akhen g was designed!
Akhen, is our NEW Egypto-Slab remixed
➽ typofonderie.com/fonts/akhen-...
Akhen designed by Jean François Porchez, is new typeface family inspired by French 19th-century metal and wood types, featuring three narrow widths and a large range of weights.
Akhen, is our NEW Egypto-Slab remixed
➽ typofonderie.com/fonts/akhen-...
Akhen designed by Jean François Porchez, is new typeface family inspired by French 19th-century metal and wood types, featuring three narrow widths and a large range of weights.
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🐪Let’s show you how Akhen g was designed!
Akhen, is our NEW Egypto-Slab remixed
➽ typofonderie.com/fonts/akhen-...
Akhen designed by Jean François Porchez, is new typeface family inspired by French 19th-century metal and wood types, featuring three narrow widths and a large range of weights.
Akhen, is our NEW Egypto-Slab remixed
➽ typofonderie.com/fonts/akhen-...
Akhen designed by Jean François Porchez, is new typeface family inspired by French 19th-century metal and wood types, featuring three narrow widths and a large range of weights.
Snagged some last minute tickets to see Playboi Carti here in Brooklyn on Thursday. Is there anything better than going to see a concert that you can walk to?
November 4, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Snagged some last minute tickets to see Playboi Carti here in Brooklyn on Thursday. Is there anything better than going to see a concert that you can walk to?
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If only there were some type of law or regulation that prevented this sort of thing…
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
If only there were some type of law or regulation that prevented this sort of thing…
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Wild how all the layoffs in mainstream media seem to eliminate almost all the Black employees of any given newsroom. Weird.
November 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Wild how all the layoffs in mainstream media seem to eliminate almost all the Black employees of any given newsroom. Weird.
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BlueSky is a club for 42-year-olds with a stomach ache and no serotonin. I thought we all knew this.
bluesky in november is like if all of a website had seasonal affective disorder
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
BlueSky is a club for 42-year-olds with a stomach ache and no serotonin. I thought we all knew this.
💙❤️ this.
XXX Salón Anual de Artistas Colombianos
By Marta Granados
1986
Archived by Archivo Gráfico Col.
#PeoplesGDArchive
#GDArchive
#ColombianDesign
#WomeninDesign
By Marta Granados
1986
Archived by Archivo Gráfico Col.
#PeoplesGDArchive
#GDArchive
#ColombianDesign
#WomeninDesign
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
💙❤️ this.
Tonight!
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...
Register today! 💙❤️
▶️▶️▶️ www.scbwi.org/events/MDDEW...
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Tonight!