Boarding’s Most Prolific Designer – Aaron Draplin – Talks
Aaron Draplin has got to be snowboarding and skateboardings most prolific designer. Can’t name another designer who has worked with both Burton snowboards and The Obama Administration. He’s done work for almost everyone and that doesn’t even include his Field Notes that many fellow designers swear by or his hectic speaking schedule.
He’s got a new book out called Pretty Much Everything that would be worth grabbing if you create or like looking at well designed logos and other such things.
With the launch of the book Aaron is doing the media rounds and in this interview with Juxtapoz he chatted up with Aesop Rock talking everything from skateboarding to process to emotions. If you’ve ever heard an Aaron Draplin rant you know they are all worthwhile:
“You know what I was concerned about when I was 14? It was sketching out how I was going to do the grip tape art on my Jeff Grosso deck! Did anyone even write that down thirty years ago? So it’s been really cool to go back, crack that big egg of your past and just let it drip all over everything now. I’m so thankful I kept it all and, of course, it informed how I work now. The biggest takeaway from going back and looking at the time when I was a kid was that I am so fucking thankful for skateboarding. And snowboarding. And punk rock. And counterculture artists. And let’s just say, for “thinking for yourself.” That stuff opened all the doors to weirdo culture, to the cool shit.”
Click over to Juxtapoz to read the whole Aaron Draplin: The Major Design interview
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