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Aaron Draplin
Founder Draplin Design Co.
Located in the mighty Pacific Northwest, the Draplin Design Co. proudly rolls up its sleeves on a number of projects related to the Print, Identity and Illustration categories. They make stuff for Coal Headwear, Union Binding Co., Richmond Fontaine, Esquire, Nike, Wired, Dinosaur Jr, Timberline, John Hodgman, Eaux Claires Music Festival, Poler, Incase, Sub Pop, Cobra Dogs, Jill Soloway, Ernie Ball, Sasquatch Music Festival, Chris Stapleton, Old 97s, Nixon Watches, Patagonia, Target, Megafaun, Ford Motor Company and even the Obama Administration, if you can believe that.
They’ve traveled the world telling their story, with over 350 speaking fiascos under their belt and counting! They co-created Field Notes with their older brother Jim Coudal, and those memo books are sold in over 2,000 stores worldwide, with limited-edition special editions shipped quarterly to a booming subscriber list. Their first book titled Pretty Much Everything came out on May 17, 2016 on Abrams Books, which incredibly, is in its seventh printing. They pride themselves on a high level of craftsmanship and quality that keeps them up late into the wet Portland night.