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View fullsize SORTA SUMMER, KINDA, MAYBE, AMIRITE?: Things are heating up! May was BEAUTIFUL here in Portland! Nice and cool the whole month. 

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View fullsize METEOROLO-GEEEEEEE!!!!: When I want to know what’s up with the weather, I go dial up Nova Scotia’s amazing Frankie McDonald! Yep. Stay wild, @frankiemacd1984! #ddcdrawingclub #ipadding
View fullsize BETWEENING: Fired up to deliver 25 minutes of road-tested, scientific, post-modern, academic scholarship in a couple hours! I’ve got 25 minutes to ADD A LITTLE HEAT to a couple of fun virtual days. Listening to the incomparable @Gary_Hustwit an
View fullsize THE COOLEST WEDNESDAY IN A LONG, LONG TIME: Today I whipped up to Rapid City to meet John Shepherd from the incredible Netlifx documentary, “John Was Trying To Contact Aliens.” I did a little write-up on his story back in 2020 when the d
View fullsize VERY LITTLE TO REPORT: Other than sleeping in, eating sandwiches and this jet plane surveilling our suspicious activities here in Lake Ann. Gonna go kick Mom's ass in Scrabble mere minutes from now. Happy Tuesday, you miscreants.... #momtime
View fullsize HARD-ASS MOM TIME: With Mom and living HARD here in Hartland, Michigan. It's not easy fetching iced coffee, sleeping way too much and chaining myself to her dining room table to work on rock projects. Phew! Hard living. Just glad to be here, with he
View fullsize I’LL BE AROUND: Michigandering! For the next twelve days! Flew into Detroit last night for some OFFICIAL BUSINESS tomorrow at the University of Michigan and their design students. As we are oft to do, Mom and I got to talking this morning. Whe
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View fullsize LATE LAST NIGHT: Got to “painting” on my iPad while digging into an episode of Ken Burns’ epic “The West.” The subject here was “Wyemah” a Taos Pueblo Indian. From a classic Edward S. Curtis 1905 photo. Rou
View fullsize DECADE OF DDC: Today marks ten years since “Pretty Much Everything” came out on @Abramsbooks on May 17, 2016! Proud to report it's still viciously “in print” celebrating its 14th printing! I remember the Abrams marketing exp
View fullsize BACK IN STOCK: Finally got our “Very Orange,” “All Natural” and “Dark Matter Black” DDC stuff sheaths back in! Now shipping! The next 25 orders come with a weirdo @fieldnotesbrand single from the DDC vaults! @leigh
View fullsize LOGO LIFE: My name is Aaron James Draplin, I am 52 years old and a graphic designer working out of Portland, Oregon. And man, I love logos. Ever since I can remember. All the way back to that Bicentennial logo in the summer of ’76, to Lego ti