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This is Design Matters with Debbie Millman from design observer.

com.

On this program, Debbie Millman talks with Aaron Draplin,

about setting up his own shop and about making money as a designer.

It's a weird pursuit for loot and loot and

and whatever you want to call it because I'm trying to earn now.

While I'm hungry, well I love it, while I'm at the phones ringing ringing because how much do you need to live?

Here's Debbie Milma.

If you went to a diner and saw Aaron Draplin, you probably think, trucker.

He's got the car hearts, the sweatshirt, the baseball cap.

He's a big guy, he's got a big mouth, and he swears up a storm.

But if you sat across from Aaron, you'd notice that his cap reads DDC for Drapplin Design Company and as for what he's swearing about it's

probably his love for IMPCO stickers or his

work has discussed for Blipo Bold.

Drapplin lives in Portland, Oregon,

and runs his own design company.

His work has the clean aesthetics of heavy industry,

the prankster sensibility of snowboarding culture, and the attention to detail

that comes from hours and hours at the work bench.

You can see that sensibility in his work for Burton Snowboards, Wired magazine, and the Obama administration.

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