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America-inspired graphic designer, compulsive truth-teller and typography stickler Aaron Draplin (@draplin) joins us to talk the real America. And when we say “the real America,” we don’t just talk politics - although there's a lot of that. We’re talking aesthetics. Stories and legends. Abandoned cities. Things we’ve forgotten. Vivid colours. Real typefaces that leap into your face and are visible from miles away. What a logo should look and feel like.
Aaron even gives us a survey of his favourite state signs.
We wrap with some really good talk about Field Notes, Draplin’s own little way of encouraging you to wrap those typing fingers back around a pen. GO GET SOME.
It’s a wild, dames and gents. A wild, Technicolor ride into the past, and your future, and the past again.
Linkage:
- Draplin.com
- Vanilla Bicycles
- Field Notes (for a good time, go for “local pickup”)
- Lemonade Detroit
- Aaron on the lost art of signage and lost America
- Bill’s Tumblr page which is modeling the Field Notes skin which Aaron knows about, even though he isn’t actually sure what Tumblr is.
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