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Draplin Design Co., North America
Things We Love

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  1. Mom.
  2. Dad.
  3. Leigh.
  4. Sister Sarah.
  5. Sister Leah.
  6. Little Gary.
  7. Big S the Passat.
  8. The DDC Factory Floor.
  9. 2946 NE 67th Avenue.
  10. Our roof.
  11. Our backyard.
  12. Fall foliage.
  13. The month of Octobrrr.
  14. Cool summer nights.
  15. That Flat Midwest.
  16. The Wet Northwest.
  17. Graphic design as a way to “Make An Honest Living.”
  18. Stayin’ outta the red.
  19. Acoustic guitars.
  20. Electric guitars.
  21. Walls of sound.
  22. The Open Road.
  23. Helvetica 55.
  24. Trade Gothic Condensed no.20.
  25. Futura Bold.
  26. Legos.
  27. Bad wildlife art.
  28. Thick paper with a good tooth to it.
  29. My beat-up Carhartt jacket.
  30. Levi 501s.
  31. Saucony Jazz kicks.
  32. Gold Toe socks.
  33. A new pair of socks.
  34. Nixon watches.
  35. Being straight with Uncle Sam.
  36. Being a good citizen/being a bad citizen.
  37. Standing up to shit that, “Isn’t right.”
  38. The stars in the summer night sky.
  39. A cold Coke.
  40. Vignelli oversize calendars.
  41. Compact discs.
  42. iTunes.
  43. iPods.
  44. Apple Products big, small, brilliant and absolutely crucical to our paltry existence.
  45. Books.
  46. Corner rounders.
  47. Flat files.
  48. A disc on the player.
  49. A stack of recently-purchased discs from the local record store.
  50. Checks showing up in the mail.
  51. Midwestern accents.
  52. Girl hands.
  53. Clean sheets.
  54. Down comforters.
  55. Cold water.
  56. Hot water.
  57. A hot shave.
  58. A tall glass of ice-cold water.
  59. Mom’s spaghetti.
  60. Dad’s “killer pizza.”
  61. Club sandwiches.
  62. The Ideal Diner in Minneapolis.
  63. The working man.
  64. Untucked shirts.
  65. Autobiographical tattoos.
  66. Impko stickers.
  67. Cards of business.
  68. Cards kits.
  69. Spot UVs.
  70. Ikea.
  71. Old postcards with “scalloped edges.”
  72. MInneapolis.
  73. Route 66.
  74. Leaving Southern California.
  75. The Flaming Lips.
  76. Schaedler rulers.
  77. Aluminum items.
  78. A vanilla milkshake.
  79. Making lists.
  80. And checking everything off.
  81. Feeling “complete” after a hard day of catching up on house chores and bills.
  82. Jackalopes.
  83. Bigfoot.
  84. Nessie.
  85. Skunk Apes.
  86. Flying home to mom and dad.
  87. A good, brisk walk with Gary.
  88. When Gary performs a “two-fer”: Pissin’ and shittin’ when we go out back.
  89. Ham radio cards.
  90. Bose Speakers.
  91. Rain squalls.
  92. Fall.
  93. Spring rainshowers in Portland.
  94. Mowing the grass.
  95. The color, “Orange.”
  96. Pantone 165.
  97. 1” rocker buttons.
  98. Those bridges of Madison County.
  99. Kentuckty’s rolling hills.
  100. Appalachia.
  101. Univerisal icons.
  102. A Western straightaway.
  103. Business loops off the highway.
  104. “OFFICE” signs.
  105. Jackalopes.
  106. Going home.
  107. Mom’s french toast.
  108. A letter from a girl.
  109. Dad’s vegetable beef soup.
  110. The hills of Eastern Oregon on Highway 20, east of Burns.
  111. Joe Beebe. A champion.
  112. A full tank of gas.
  113. Flat screen TVs.
  114. Flat screen monitors.
  115. Old dimes stores that let the stock “sell out” before rotating it with new crap.
  116. Log typography.
  117. Brick buildings.
  118. The houses of Louisville.
  119. Shotgun houses in Louisville.
  120. A nice piece of Alaskan Halibut.
  121. Uncle Bens’ wild rice.
  122. Chicken fried rice.
  123. “Pad Kee Mao” from Chaba Thai down the street.
  124. Beans & Rice, Dominican style, off the J train in Brooklyn.
  125. Punjabi, latenight, on Houston in Manhattan.
  126. Water chestnuts.
  127. Baby corn.
  128. Green beans.
  129. Asparagus.
  130. Utah’s license plates.
  131. Moab.
  132. Those Badlands of South Dakota.
  133. Gary gallops/hops and endos when throwing the ball around.
  134. Getting home after a long roadtrip.
  135. Writing things down.
  136. Field Notes.
  137. Practicing my penmanship.
  138. Harmonicas.
  139. That “Dm7” chord.
  140. Pilote Butte.
  141. Luis Guzman.
  142. Philip Seymour Hoffman.
  143. People who exhibit good grammar and punction. (I’m trying!)
  144. Apsco pencil sharpeners.
  145. Boxer shorts.
  146. Pesto.
  147. Old warehouse buildings.
  148. Dogs who lay on their sides.
There Are 3 Comments

I really enjoy the style and subject matter of this site. I am a freelance graphic design geek from Portland, OR and I am always looking for cool websites with this sort of indie DIY sensibility. I don’t know why I am saying all of this, I just feel like I have a one-way connection after a few months of e-stalking this site. Is art school pretty much the only way to crack into the full-time graphic design world? I have absolutely zero business savvy. It’s cool to see such an artistic person being able to do it for a living and, from what I have seen you don’t seem like a sell out. Anyway, great site, I’m done rambling now.

Posted by: Oyl Miller on 07/02/05 at 3:31 PM

oh i am putting together mine now…
www.overloaddesignstudios.com/abdesign/home.html

from a fresh outta college graphic / multimedia designer…

Posted by: amanda b (ab design) on 02/07/08 at 3:52 AM

How come you love Ikea? Talking about respect in the (graphic design) world while at the same time bashing your friends over at the furniture department by loving Ikea seems so unlikely to go well with the rest of your attitude.. alas, its just an opinion. Just wanted to remind you that IKEA is one of the reasons why America is (as) fucked as the rest of the world, furniture-wise.

ugh.

Posted by: Jan on 08/05/08 at 7:40 PM
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