by Daniele Rossi | Sep 29, 2011 | creativity, illustration
The third release in my “tech joke” cover ebook series is 1950s short sci-fi story, The Stutterer by R.R. Merliss. My goal with the series is to create ebooks with illustrative covers of literature in the public domain. I design the covers using comparable...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 27, 2011 | creativity, illustration
The second book I illustrated and released as an ebook in my “tech joke” series was Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer. First published in 1879, it’s about a female telegraph operator who falls in love with a male telegrapher over the wire. Yup, chat...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 24, 2011 | creativity, illustration
Over the next few days, I’ll be blogging about the inspiration and decisions behind the 3 ebooks covers I illustrated, assembled into actual ebooks and launched last week. The gimmick here is I choose public domain books available on Project Gutenberg and...
by Daniele Rossi | Sep 19, 2011 | creativity, illustration
One of the projects I have been working on is creating cover illustration art work for classic novels. My shtick here is to use today’s digital culture references in the illustrations. My other shtick is to package them with the classic novels themselves and...
by Daniele Rossi | Aug 24, 2011 | blog, news
It’s usually at this time of year you can sense that A LOT of people are on vacation. So, in honour of this and the impending doom called “six months of long, cold, dark winter”, I will be on a vacation from blogging until my triumphant return in the...
by Daniele Rossi | Aug 13, 2011 | comics, user experience
New comic over at my graphic blog: a good example of not quite the user experience both parties had hoped for. Download, print it and use it for your September calendar :)
by Daniele Rossi | Aug 12, 2011 | blog, comics, social media
I drew and posted this comic on my graphic blog after suffering from a bout of social media information overload.
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 31, 2011 | blog, comics, creativity, illustration
I had the pleasure of speaking to a grade 4 class on the other side of the country via Skype. My how times have changed! The topic was illustration, comics, cartooning and animation. I told them how lucky they were to be living in the Internet age where anyone can be...
by Daniele Rossi | Jul 11, 2011 | comics, social media
I created a four-part series over at my graphic blog teaching a little bit about the similarities of the telegraph and today’s Internet. It’s inspired by the book, The Victorian Internet, and it “takes place” in a fictional version of PodCamp...
by Daniele Rossi | Jun 30, 2011 | creativity, news, social media
It is the day after my return from this year’s PAB conference in the nation’s capital and as expected, it did not disappoint. I’ve attended PAB every year since 2007 and always return even more energized to create content. I keep returning because...
