Aaron James Draplin's Blog, page 11

DDC vs. DMB: SOLD OUT.

THAT TOOK ALL OF TWO MINUTES: To sell out our stack of Dave Matthews Band posters. Holy shit. Two minutes. Woosh.

Sadly, due to the INSANE RUSH of orders, it oversold, and we���ll be in touch with each person who didn���t make the fifty poster cut-off. My sincerest apologies. Before I could turn the link off, another 20 orders came in! That was at the 110-second mark? Who lives like this?!

That was fuckin��� nuts. Ferocious. Terrifying. Fun. Surreal. Thank you to everyone who snagged one!

IN 59 MINUTES...DDC VS. DMB!!!

IN FIFTY-NINE MINUTES FROM NOW: Fifty of our ���Dave Matthews Band, Bend, Oregon, 8/28/18��� concert poster screen prints! 11 AM PST! Right here! Ordering details go up at 11 AM, SHARP! BAM!

Early Summer Listening List

01. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Sparkle Hard (Orion cover design! Rexroad cover photo!)

02. Sleep - The Sciences

03. Howlin Rain - The Alligator Bride

04. Duran Duran - Rio

05. Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger

06. Deep Purple - In Rock

07. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks

08. The Sea and Cake - Any Day

09. Tad - Quick and Dirty

10. Flaming Lips - Onboard the International Space Station Concert

11. Dharma Bums - Bliss

12. Dharma Bums - Haywire

13. Jack Cooper - Sandgrown

14. Heron Oblivion - The Chapel

15. Chris Crofton - Hello It's Me

16. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Wolf of the Cosmos

17. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression Rarities

18. Melvins - Pinkus Abortion Technician

19. Beach Slang - We Were Babies & We Were Dirtbag 7-inch

20. The Beatles - Beatles For Sale

21. Badfinger - No Dice

22. Led Zeppelin - How The West Was Won

23. Guided By Voices - Space Gun

24. Dungen & Woods - Myths 003

25. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Polygondwanaland

26. Yo La Tengo - There's A Riot Going On

27. Mount Eerie - Now Only

28. Buffalo Tom - Quiet & Peace

29. Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising

30. Bill Evans - Everybody Digs Bill Evans

31. Calexico - The Thread That Keeps Us

32. Ron Wood - I've Got My Own Album To Do

33. Pete Krebs - Greatest Hits

34. Mark Kozelek - Sings Favorites

35. Chris Stapleton - From A Room: Volume 2

36. Ryley Walker - Deafman Glance

37. Neil Young - Roxy: Tonight's the Night Live

38. Son Volt - Trace

39. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

40. Wilco - Schmilco

NOW TAKING ORDER: Pizza Kings Team T-Shirts!!!

Product Description:
A couple days back my nephew Oliver was in the shop, telling me about baseball practice earlier in the afternoon. He saddled up to the monitors with me and we got to work on a Pizza Kings logo for the team, if anything, just for the hell of it. I had some ideas, of course, but even cooler than that, Oliver knew EXACTLY what he wanted in the logo. He's almost eight and knows his stuff. We traded sketches and got to work. In no time, we had the design you are seeing up above. And just for fun, we posted it on Instagram, and had an OVERWHELMING response from everyone pledging to get a shirt to help out the team! So that's what you are seeing here. We're going for it.

Our first goal is to get a t-shirt for each kid on Oliver���s team! All proceeds past that go to snacks and drinks for the kids. All proceeds past that get donated to the league.

We're gonna leave the post up for a good, solid week, and then place the order for the shirts. Hoping to deliver the things around mid May-ish!

PLACE THAT ORDER and let's get the Pizza Kings of Sellwood outfitted! Batter up!

The t-shirt order is in!!!
We'll ship them AS SOON as they are done at the printer. Stay tuned, Pizza Kings fans!

The Fine Print:
For customers using PayPal, click the link above they'll take it from there. For customers who aren't using PayPal, send us an email to "orders(at)draplin.com" and we'll get back to you with an address to ship the funds to. We accept money orders and cold hard cash, so, get with it, man! All orders are shipped out as fast as we can. Usually a couple days after the order comes in. We ship everything USPS "First Class" rates. If you want quicker shipping, contact us and we can ramp it up to USPS Priority, or whatever you need. We aim to please!

International Orders:
We cover the shipping in the states, but charge the basics for international orders. Before you place the order through our PayPal account, send us an email to "orders(at)draplin.com" and we'll get you a shipping quote for the goods you are interested in. As simple as that! Thanks!

��2018 DDC Dry Goods Div., Merch Dept., Portland, Ore.

OUR FOURTH SKILLSHARE CLASS: "Situation: Iteration" is out!

INFINITE POSSIBILITIES, YOU GUYS: Our fourth Skillshare class is up RIGHT NOW, and with one click here, you can get going in it: "Situation: Iteration - Iterating with Shape, Style, and Color"

With simple moves, you can tweak even the most basic of sketches into new, exciting territory. You just gotta put the work in and let it flow. We'll arm you with quick moves to add to your growing quiver of creative twists and turns. We show you how to push shapes, styles, colors, type and texture, all packed into one raging class. GO!

As always, I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with! I'll be lurking around the Skillshare's project gallery page, offering up comments, tips and high fives!

Don't forget our first three classes, either: "Logo Design with Draplin: Secrets of Shape, Type and Color", "Circular Logo Design with Draplin: Combine Type & Icons in a Classic Shape" and "Customizing Type: Creating Wordmarks That Work". Dig in, people, dig in deep!

A big, hairy, iterated thank you to Elliott, Bill and Scott from Skillshare for hanging in there with me. Here's four iterations on thanking them: 01. Thanks, you scrubs. 02. Thank you from the bottom of my bacon, egg and cheese bagel. 03. Thank you, peckerwoods. 04. Thank you for being awesome and patient each time we jump into the ring.

Tons of New DDC Action Caps!!!

JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS: Tons of new DDC Action Caps hot off the delivery truck! These things are still cold from their spot on the UPS truck. Warm one up with that noggin of yers! We're shipping all day! GO!

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Portland Bazaar 2017!!!

THIS WEEKEND, PORTLAND: Our fifth showing at the Portland Bazaar!!! We���ve locked down TWO SPACES this time around for MAXIMUM DDC MERCH dispersal. Friday from 6-9 PM, and then Saturday and Sunday from 10-5 PM! So many boss vendors will be there offering a wide array of items. Drinks, food, cool stuff. Gift ideas! Goodies! FULL DDC MERCH LINE OF: DDC Books, posters, mini-prints, hats, beanies, mugs, key thingies, bandanas, magnets, patches,decals, goodies, things and stuff at "Portland Only" prices. Full line of Field Notes and Notes To Self wares, too! North Warehouse at 723 N. Tillamook! Come hang out!

ORANGE ACROSS AMERICA: The DDC 2017 Fall Tour Is Going!

WE'RE OUT THERE: Come see a show!

AdobeMAX 2017

HAVING A SHITLOAD OF FUN: Here at AdobeMAX in Las Vegas! Thanks to everyone who came to my talk this afternoon! Doing the same talk again tomorrow morning at 8:15 AM!

And then on Friday, that's the day we're doing a FULL-THROATED, GO-FOR-BROKE, LOAD-IT-ALL-IN, PRICED-TO-MOVE, WE-MIGHT-BE-DEAD-TOMORROW pop-up shop filled with DDC merch! Come find us, AdobeMAX peoples! Friday from 9:30 AM to 4 PM. We're not messing around. Things you need!

Popping Up This Saturday At Outlet PDX!

PORTLAND POP-UP ALERT: This Saturday at Outlet PDX! Yes! Yeslet! Just got the big news that we���re doing a DDC & Notes to Self pop-up at Outlet PDX on Saturday, October 7 from 11am-4pm! Come hang out! Under the watchful eye of our buddy Kate Bingaman-Burt!

We���ll have a full offering of DDC merch in tow, and, Leigh's entire line of cool stuff from her new project Notes To Self! Come hang out! General conversation, weather speculation, book signing, high fiving, chewing the fat, shaking hands, spinning yarns and whatever else we can pack in from those five hours.

Here's the official link to it! Love all that yellow!