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Draplin Design Co.🍊Field Notes🍊Speaking Fiascos & Workshops🍊DDC Fonts🍊8 Skillshare Classes🍊400-ish DDC merch items always shipping!🍊GO! ↩️

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New for Fall - the “Hunter’s Moon” edition, captured here by @lucaszfitz.

Inspired in part by Ted Kooser’s lovely poem, “Abandoned House,” artist Laura Weiler (@cutandplaced) created the dream-like artwork spanning across covers of both books using a unique gel plate method of monoprinting, layering collaged images, inks, and paints that are pressed and then transferred to paper.

Available now at fieldnotesbrand dot com. by @draplin

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Aaron @draplin is the owner of Draplin Design Co. He lives and works in Portland, OR making things for rock bands, comedians, festivals and more. He has taught design to thousands of students through Skillshare and has told his story on stages around the world.

His keynote at The Maker City Summit, is a look at what happens when you let creativity seep into every part of your life: how you spend your time, how you show up for your family, how you make a living and how you navigate the inevitable dips.

Breakout Session:
Tips, Tricks, Techniques, Tales & Threats with the DDC
Saturday, January 30
(Space is limited!)

Keynote:
A Ride Through One Human's Creative Peaks, Avalanches and Dark Valleys.
Sunday, January 31

📍 Knoxville, TN

#TheMakerCity taken in Knoxville Tennesse by @draplin

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ONLY TOOK ME SEVENTEEN YEARS: With my summer’s worth of projects, travel and hoochery finally being wrapped up (-ish), founad myself with a whole Saturday before me to focus on long overdue domestic duties.

Back in 2010 I got a door for the front of the house. Big, solid beast. Cost me a cool $3000! From Edelen Door here in Portland. They installed it in a day, and left the premises with all the moulding unfinished. When the rep made the follow-up call to make sure I was happy with the job I asked, “So when are they are coming back to paint the trim?” And without missing a beat the guy said, “Oh, we don’t do that. That’s up to you.” And that was that. Real cool. Goddammit.

So some 17 years later I finally got around to doing it. And by “I” I should revise that one to a hard “We,” as my co-pilot, apprentice-in-training, second-in-command, Assistant Regional Manager to the Regional Manager @leighola77 was the hard-hitting, relentless project manager who pushed me over the edge—into near unbearable insanity—and WE AS A TEAM finally got the fucking thing painted, spliffed, miffed, whiffed and spiffed.

DILPs! (Doors I’d like to paint.) (And did paint.)

Even hung those fancy house numbers. Bought those little fuckerfaces back in 2012 or something. Just a mere 14 years ago. Basically 1/4 of my half-ass life ago.

Smooth moves, Exlax! (Talking to myself, there.)

Smoove moves, Leigh Leigh. (Talking to my co-pilot, apprentice-in-training, second-in-command, Assistant Regional Manager to the Regional Manager Leigh, there.)

#domesticity #finallygettingaroundtoit #embarrassingposts taken in Portland, Oregon by @draplin

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SITEWIDE MEANS THE WHOLE DAMNED SITE: Ahem, all you pumpkin-spiced leaf rustlers! All DDC merch is on sale! We've got a 15% off sitewide sale going until further notice!

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🍁 DDC SITEWIDE 15% OFF SALE!!! → Now shipping!
🍁 DDC SITEWIDE 15% OFF SALE!!! → Over 400+ spirited merch items!
🍁 DDC SITEWIDE 15% OFF SALE!!! → Keep Leigh shipping all day!
🍁 DDC SITEWIDE 15% OFF SALE!!! → Over on draplin.com
🍁 DDC SITEWIDE 15% OFF SALE!!! → Our entire "Merch" section!
🍁 15% off discount will be applied automatically during checkout!

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Sale in effect until further notice! Head over to draplin.com and dig into our expansive 400+ item merch section! That's a lot of stuff on sale! GO!

#ddcmerch #fifteenpercentoff #untilfurthernotice taken in Portland, Oregon by @draplin

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ROCKTOBERRRRRRRR: Our absolute favorite time of year! Leaves rustling...cool temps cooling...pumpkin spice this-n-that..and an ORANGE OVERLOAD of Autumn Splendor! We'll take it.

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We made a "Fall Forever Super Kit" of fall-related items! 9 decals, 1 patch, 1 pin and 1 key chain! Just $24.99! Killer deal! Item DDC-285 in our “Decals 1” section!

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Head over to draplin.com and get a “Fall Forever Super Kit” going! Link in bio, too!

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#fallforeversuperkit #ddcmerch taken in Portland, Oregon by @draplin

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SPEAKING OF NASHVILLE: We got our stash of “Paul Cauthen Ryman Nashville” posters in…AND ARE UP ON THE SITE!

So that means all you rattlesnake-smooching, bronco-bucking, whiskey-soaked, whiskey-gargling, whiskey-dicked, hard-living, hard-loving, fart-sniffing, three-chords-to-the-truthing, ranch-to-ranch-drifting, bad boy, bad girl, bad Bubba, bad Betty, jake-braking, truckin’, ass-whoppin’, bling-dangling, train-hopping cute, little outlaws can get one of yer very own!

DDC-415 “DDC-415 “Paul Cauthen, The Ryman, Nashville, 9/11/2026” Poster

SPECS:
01. A WHOPPING 9-color screen print! That’s a lot of color.
02. 18” x 24” in dimension.
03. Thick, uncoated poster paper.
04. Blistering limited edition! 150? 100? 50? I don’t even know.
05. Printed by the I-35’ists at @seenmerch in Kansas City.

Head over to draplin.com and find our “Merch” section, then our “Posters” section and hit the “Rock” filter to get weird with one of these!

#rockposters #ddcmerch #ddc415 taken in Ryman Auditorium by @draplin

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DEEP IN A PROJECT ON A SATURDAY: And I can take an exit ramp, check the Instagrizz part of town and see this book cover around a corner, sent in from one @jesseharding out in Nebraska. Thank you, Sir. Incredible moves!

Check those droplets! Pretty wicked. Dang. And some nasty Kabel Black going down. Equally as wicked.

Alright...back to this Southern Rock project. Can’t say anything else as these words go to print. But when I can, I’ll say it loud and fucking proud, “I got to roll my sleeves up for the fuckin’ ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ and the ⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️!!!”

Can you believe it? I can't, but my IPAD CERTAINLY CAN. Been drawing up a storm on this fucker.

Anyhoo, thank you Jesse Harding! Appreciated!

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AFTERBURNING: Been listening to the shit out of the new Lambchop “Punching the Clown” record while making pages for a fantastic magazine project we’re not at liberty to discuss just yet.

Been a Lambchop fan back to those early ’00s, out of my love for the “Y’Alternative’ bands from the mid-to-late-’90s. (Son Volt, Wilco, Richard Buckner, Old 97s…) Kept hearing about Lambchop, heard this collaboration with Josh Rouse called, “Chester” and soon after got to “Nixon” a couple months after the millennium ticked over.

Fast forward to an afternoon in Nashville in 2017 when I got to meet Kurt Wagner, right at his house. Simply due to our love of bad hats, and a special connection by one very cool Mary Mancini, his lovely wife. We talked about hats, records, dogs, Nashville, and, Lambchop’s record art.

I remember him telling me how he’d have his friend(s) over to the house—figure out some kind of a meal to share—and get down to work on the new record. And that’s how it went for Lambchop, all the way back the first record.

I remember this being very touching. His commitment to their ongoing collaboration, and all the beautiful output over the years, which FEELS LIKE THE BAND. Exactly what it’s supposed to do.

You HAVE to listen to “Making Ways” podcast’s incredible “The Art of Lambchop” episode. Kurt and Craig tell their story about how they work. Found it beyond fascinating.

And thank you Mr. Goodman for that peek under such a magical hood!

Yay, Lambchop! Yay, New Formalists! Yay, records!

#lambchop #newformalists #recorddesign #graphicalartistry @lambchopisaband @craigdavidallen @therobgoodman taken in Nashville, Tennessee by @draplin

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