- Publisher
- Abrams
- Published
- 2016
- Shelf
- design: Monograph
- ISBN
- 9781419720178
Monograph
Draplin Design Co.: Pretty Much Everything
Aaron James Draplin
Thirty years of one designer's output, from Field Notes to Ford, with the sketches and the swearing left in.
Why read it
Monographs usually show the finished poster and hide the road to it. Draplin prints the ugly middle: the rejected rounds, the client notes, the jobs taken for rent. The through line is that a thick, plain, confident style is a decision repeated for decades rather than a gift.
Why own it
It is the most cheerful object on this shelf and the best argument that a career is built out of small paid jobs done properly. Good to have in the room on a bad week.
Who it is for
Designers building a body of work, and anyone who thinks a portfolio has to be precious to be good.
Opens a search on AbeBooks, a network of independent and antiquarian sellers, which is where a good part of this shelf has to be found, because it is out of print.
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