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
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.
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
💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️
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?