Aaron Draplin is an iconic fixture of Portland, Oregon’s busy graphic design scene. Having made a name for himself with stand-out work for snowboarding companies and their like, he’s now courting more mainstream clients.
Draplin has a fetish for the greater design decisions of thirty-odd-plus years ago, especially the sort of stuff that enclosed a wingnut for your whatnot. It’s an influence that constantly shows in his work, and we don’t think you should be expecting that to change with his new paymasters.
While on a mission to video-document the designer for snowboard website Yobeat, Jared Souney had a guided peak into the big man’s drawers of dirty delights for Level mag dot com.
—Chris Noble, 07 April 2011
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I think looking into the past for inspiration is a great concept to be applied in a variety of aspects of life. In my industry we are seeing a reemergence of retro cocktails and recipes for craft beers that are hundred’s, sometimes thousands of years old.
—Mike Burns, 12 April 2011
In Portland, even the lumberjacks are artists.
—sukho, 21 April 2011
Aaron is a god. I want that purity and honesty in my work.
—Thom Cheney, 21 April 2011
Aaron is an artist first and applies that eye to his craft. There are too many graphic designers in the world who are not artists.
—T. K. Aleshire, 05 October 2011