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If you don’t already have lunch plans, considering dropping in on today’s AdFed presentation at St. Charles featuring former Bend resident and Portland’s badboy of graphic design, Aaron Draplin. Presentation starts at 11:30. Admission is $25 for members. Lunch included.

Here’s our write-up from this week’s Picks Page.

If there were such a think as a grunge rock graphic designer it would be Aaron Draplin. A former Bend snowboard bum who cut his teeth laying out pages for the Nickel Ads, Draplin has since turned the ad design world on its creative head with his renegade and often minimalistic takes. Whether designing ads for corporate clients or working up a campaign for a friend, Draplin doesn’t think outside the box, he crushes it under his heel. Hear him riff on advertising, design that doesn’t suck and why he likes to work in his underwear. St.Charles $25/members $45/non-members. Registration adfedco.org or 541-385-1992

This article appears in Feb 23-29, 2012.

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Don’t Miss Draplin, The Dirtbag Turned Designer at AdFed Today

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
February 23, 2012

<h1>Don’t Miss Draplin, The Dirtbag Turned Designer at AdFed Today</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />February 23, 2012</p> <p> If you don't already have lunch plans, considering dropping in on today's <a href="http://www.adfedco.org/events/2012_February_adbite" target="_blank">AdFed presentation</a> at St. Charles featuring former Bend resident and Portland's badboy of graphic design, Aaron Draplin. Presentation starts at 11:30. Admission is $25 for members. Lunch included.</p> <p>Here's our write-up from this week's Picks Page.</p> <p><em>If there were such a think as a grunge rock graphic designer it would be <a href="http://draplin.com/" target="_blank">Aaron Draplin</a>. A former Bend snowboard bum who cut his teeth laying out pages for the Nickel Ads, Draplin has since turned the ad design world on its creative head with his renegade and often minimalistic takes. Whether designing ads for corporate clients or working up a campaign for a friend, Draplin doesn&rsquo;t think outside the box, he crushes it under his heel. Hear him riff on advertising, design that doesn&rsquo;t suck and why he likes to work in his underwear. St.Charles $25/members $45/non-members. Registration adfedco.org or 541-385-1992</em></p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/dont-miss-draplin-the-dirtbag-turned-designer-at-adfed-today-2140096/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=18311&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/dont-miss-draplin-the-dirtbag-turned-designer-at-adfed-today-2140096/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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