This episode of the Portland Art Museum Podcast digs into the archives to an Artist Talk by Aaron Draplin, a Portland-based graphic designer whose reputation expands far beyond Oregon. In this Artist Talk from 2014, Aaron discusses his work as it relates to Hilaire Hiler’s “San Francisco Street“.
Mentioned in this episode:
San Francisco Street: portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=31370;type=101
Draplin.com
666 Logos – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc100_pretty_much_everything_up_to_oct_11_2013_poster.html
TEDx Talk – youtu.be/_PMK1M7ZxJc
Larry Poons, “Open Country” – portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=32652;type=101
Bicentennial logo – wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bicentennial
FIELD NOTES – fieldnotesbrand.com
Iowa Landscape poster – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc117_iowa_usa_poster.html
Space Shuttle poster – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc090_space_shuttle_poster.html
Thick Lines poster series – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc114_thick_lines_poster_series.html
wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellsworth_Kelly
Sasquatch Festival logo – draplin.com/1998/01/sub_pop_records.html
Logo for Target – mcad.edu/sites/default/files/alumni_photos/TARGET_CONQUER.jpg
Saul Bass’s Bell Telephone Logo – theverge.com/2015/9/5/9266257/bell-telephone-saul-bass-logo-pitch-video
Montana poster – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc085_maximum_montana_poster.html
Colorado poster – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc062_colorado_collected_poster.html
South Dakota poster – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc079_solidly_south_dakota_poster.html
Iowa poster – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc075_iowa_all_the_way_poster.html
Oregon T-Shirt – draplin.com/1998/01/ddc082_oregon_torso_cover.html
Sun T-Shirt – draplin.com/2013/06/logo_for_the_ddc_summer_months.html
Young Aaron’s Self-Potrtait – 
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