by Daniele Rossi | Jun 27, 2010 | creativity, news, social media
As usual, PAB, held at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa this year, did not disappoint this year. And as usual, it topped the previous year. I feel there is no need for me to write up a summary when there are already fantastic posts describing the event;...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 1, 2009 | blog, creativity
I came across this post today on 37Signals.com about sketching with a thick Sharpie marker. The gist of it is the thicker the marker, the less you’ll be able to write down notes and such. And the less you do that, the more you focus on the big picture now and...
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 5, 2009 | blog, creativity, illustration
I came across this post on design thinking using post-it notes on a whiteboard instead of sketching on paper. The gist of it is the advantage of being able to move post-it notes from one area of the white board to another. Whereas sketching on paper requires a lot of...
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 3, 2009 | blog, creativity, illustration
I just launched Ti-Ger.org with my friend. The idea for this new website came after listening to my friend’s analogy of stuttering acceptance on his podcast (which you can read about right on the ti-ger.org homepage). The analogy inspired me (I stutter) to draw a...
by Daniele Rossi | Jun 3, 2009 | blog, comics, creativity, illustration, social media
This year’s giveway for Podcasters Across Borders (PAB) will be 1” buttons I had made by the fine folks at Mad Cow Buttons. I really love how these came out! The photo above doesn’t do them justice. The images are sharp with vibrant colours and the teeny tiny fine...
by Daniele Rossi | May 18, 2009 | blog, creativity
My friend Shane Shennan recently applied the infamous Marshall McLuhan quote about television, “the medium is the message”, to… notebooks. In his post, Mangle Your Moleskine!, Shane explains how the type/cost of the notebook you use influences your...