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 | 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 | Jun 9, 2011 | comics, illustration, user experience
I recently relaunched my webcomic Superspud.com as a graphic blog (read: graphic journalism). My latest post reflects my frustration and utter bewilderment of the new UI for Skype 5.1 for Mac. In a nutshell, it’s unintuitive. I think the comic explains exactly...
by Daniele Rossi | Dec 17, 2010 | illustration
Roderick, the practical joking guardian angel of Spud is back in colouring book form (well, page) for you to download and colour! It’s my submission for the 2010 Catholic New Media Advent Calendar organized by my friend Sean McGaughey. Each day of the online...
by Daniele Rossi | Oct 4, 2010 | blog, creativity, illustration, social media, user experience
I felt it was time to redesign and rebrand ti-ger.org and take it to the next level. To recap: ti-ger.org promotes the fantastic Tiger Analogy of Stuttering Empowerment. I liked it so much when I first heard it that I immediately designed a tiger cartoon mascot and...
by Daniele Rossi | Aug 24, 2009 | blog, comics, illustration, social media
I just stumbled upon this beautiful, minimalistically designed website, Dear Mr. Watterson. As a huge fan of the Calvin & Hobbes comics, I am really excited to see such an initiative. It’s a movie about the influence the strip had on fans around the world....