Author: Robert Maisano

  • Cadillac Christmas

    Cadillac Christmas

    For the last few years I’ve been holding on to a photograph that inspired me to create something that captures the essence of Christmas. I wanted to bring a Christmas ornament to life. The required gear was a 1967 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, a Christmas tree, a camera, and a very tall ladder. Here’s a little…

  • A Life Changing Year

    A Life Changing Year

    This morning I discovered a photo I took in Los Angeles. I’m bit obsessed with typography and found the lettering of this café unique. What blew my mind was seeing the date it was taken and the significance of that coffee meeting. This 45-minute meeting changed my life forever. I flew to LA give a…

  • Perfection Doesn’t Exist

    Perfection Doesn’t Exist

    It’s a mirage that stops us from doing great work. A few years ago, when I started to take my art seriously, I had to accept this fact. If I wait for perfect, I’ll never get started. I’ll dissolve into obscurity like the millions of unnamed artists. My early work is embarrassing to me now,…

  • What I Learned from Journaling Every Day for a Year

    What I Learned from Journaling Every Day for a Year

    There’s a feeling unlike any other when you’ve critically failed. I felt it enter me, like cold water hitting an empty stomach. It’s awful and yet thousands of articles lionize failure. I heard a writer call it “failure porn,” pretty spot on. Real failure is like contracting an incurable disease that lives with you forever.…

  • A World Without Ethics

    A World Without Ethics

    Order keeps chaos at bay. We seek order in areas of our life that affect us severely, which brings in ethics. The Hippocratic Oath, The Order of the Engineer, The Architect’s Oath, ad infinitum. These are moral principles that govern our behavior—for good reason. You don’t want your heart surgeon to show up drunk, nor…

  • Rethinking Journalism, Content Creation, and how to fix Information-ruin

    Rethinking Journalism, Content Creation, and how to fix Information-ruin

    Is this all there is? I mean really…is it? How can we have access to world’s information but consuming through such terrible platforms. It’s the equivalent to having access to filtered spring water but drinking it from a lead pipe caked in mold and rust. Information-ruin has made us allergic to sitting down for 40…

  • We’re In This Together New York

    We’re In This Together New York

    New York City is an amplified version of humanity. I may no longer live there but my heart still does, my family too. To see the city shutter from afar felt awful. There’s little I could do. To get my mind off the strangeness of this “new normal” I started drawing again. I wanted to…