Episode 649 - Aaron Draplin

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2015

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

It’s likely that Aaron Draplin has more passion about graphic design than you have about anything. Marc visits Aaron at the seat of the empire he created in Portland and finds out how a skater kid from the Midwest worked his way up through Snowboarder Magazine to build his own independent design business from scratch and become the go-to guy for some of the country’s most prominent brands.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:10.8	How are you, what the fucker is, what the fuck buddies, what the fucksters, what the fuck
0:14.5	adelix, what's happening?
0:16.7	This is Mark Maren, this is WTF, this is my podcast.
0:20.2	Thank you for being here.
0:22.2	Today on the show, Aaron Draplin from Draplin Design Company.
0:26.8	This is a guy.
0:27.8	How do I explain this?
0:28.8	I'm not even sure how we came together.
0:31.7	I think someone said I should talk to him and then I did a little research on him and he
0:36.2	seemed like an interesting character.
0:39.0	He is the overseer of Draplin Design Company.
0:45.3	Mr. Aaron James Draplin.
0:47.8	He's a self-made man.
0:49.7	He's an obsessed man.
0:50.8	He's obsessed with logos and design.
0:53.7	I don't know much about design but he speaks to people about this.
0:57.3	He's a charismatic man.
0:59.1	He happened to pawn something in his design practice.
1:01.7	These field notes, blank books, became very popular and he designed them and now he's got
1:06.3	this whole racket going and I wanted to learn a little bit about design.
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