Wednesday, April 27

6:30—8:30 pm

The Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
The New School
66 West 12th Street

6:30-7:00PM Doors open & check-in
7:00-8:30PM Presentation
8:30-9:00PM Book signing & reception

There are a limited number of tickets reserved for New School faculty, staff and students. Valid N # and rsvp are required. Please click here to RSVP. The reservation system will shut down once we’ve reached capacity.

Using scientific proof and state-of-the-art multimedia techniques, Aaron James Draplin of the Draplin Design Co. delivers a suckerpunch of a talk that aims to provide bonafide proof of work, the highs and lows of a ferociously independent existence and a couple tall tales from his so-called career in the cutthroat world of contemporary graphic design. Just a regular guy with a trajectory a little dirtier than yours, his talk is open to all oncomers brave enough to show up. If you are a youngster, you may find yourself inspired to attack your design future in a different way. If you are established, you may just leave feeling grateful you don’t have anything to do with him. Hard to say. Be there!

After the event you are invited to join Aaron for a reception and book signing of advanced copies of his Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything book in The Atrium.

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. We make stuff for Field Notes, Coal Headwear, Union Binding Co., Richmond Fontaine, Esquire, Nike, Old 97s, Wired, Dinosaur Jr, Timberline, Chunklet, Eaux Claires, Poler, Incase, Giro, Cobra Dogs, Burton Snowboards, Rhett Miller, Nixon Watches, Patagonia, Target, Megafaun, Danava, Ford Motor Company, Woolrich and even the Obama Administration, if you can believe that. We pride ourselves on a high level of craftsmanship and quality that keeps us up late into the wet Portland night.