People in the printed-word world complain that too many digital distractions are pulling attention away from their work. Oh, if only we still lived in the old days when images pressed onto paper ...

Aaron Draplin is sort of like the Bernie Sanders of graphic design. While plenty of graphic designers prefer to play inside baseball, Draplin, who runs Draplin Design Company out of Portland, is a ...

If you have a career in design, you’ve certainly seen Draplin’s work. You might even know him by name. But even if you don’t know him directly, it’s likely that you’ve heard of Field Notes. Draplin, ...

Field Notes cofounders Aaron Draplin and Jim Coudal have convened to ostensibly talk about their cult-fave memo book brand. But Draplin—the gregarious, hilarious Portland proprietor of Draplin Design ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — When Aaron Draplin opens up a speech on graphic design in Germany, the story he tells about growing up in northern Michigan isn’t always a fairy tale. “Usually it’s in the context of ...

Aaron Draplin was born in Detroit, Michigan: a true Midwesterner through and through. At the age of 4, his parents moved their family from big-city Detroit to a small town in Central Lake Michigan.

Aaron Draplin is best-known as a graphic designer -- a big, loud, shamelessly big-hearted graphic designer -- but we'd insist he is more than the sum of his parts. Long before the Internet was in all ...

Listen to Who Runs That? via Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Stitcher, or Google Play. Seth Stevenson chats with the co-founder and chief designer of Field Notes, Aaron Draplin. In their ...