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CALLING ALL ABLE-BODIED WILDINGS OF THE BLACK HILLS! Diseased prairie dogs! Crazy Horse sculptors! Deadwood gamblers! Jackalope taxidermists! Rushmore rangers! Box Elder brawlers! HE'S COMING BACK!!!

Aaron James Draplin will make his triumphant return to the Black Hills for a full day event at The Barn in Rapid City on Thursday, September 26, as part of the DDC 2019 Fall Old Haunts/New Haunts/Weird Haunts/Annual Haunts Tour brought to you by the fine folks at Jackalope and Launch Collective.

Multiple ticket packages are available -
Behind the Scenes with the Draplin Design Co. High Energy Morning Workshop (Limited tickets!)
10am-2pm, $50/person which includes a South Dakota Field Notes, DDC Pencil and DDC Sticker Set!

Get the inside scoop with Aaron Draplin of Draplin Design Co. and learn what goes on behind the scenes of the DDC! He'll give an in-depth walk through of some of his existing projects and answer questions in a more intimate setting. He'll show you the finer points of his logo making process, from sketch to iterations to finalizing. Feel the power of pencil on paper! Unlock something in your hands and in your mind! Adobe Illustrator tips, tricks, tales, triumphs, and threats will be offered up from his questionalbe existence! Questions answered. Riddles solved. Enigmas discussed. Don't miss out!

Evening Happy Hour + Full-Throated, Multi-Media Speaking Fiasco 5:00pm-6:30pm, A Proper South Dakota Happy Hour Featuring Firecraft Pizza 6:30-8:15pm, Aaron James Draplin Delivers a Full-Throated, Multi-Media Speaking Fiasco $20/person

Using scientific proof and state-of-the-art multimedia techniques, Aaron James Draplin of the Draplin Design Co. delivers a suckerpunch of a talk that aims to provide bonafide proof of work, the highs and lows of a ferociously independent existence and a couple tall tales from his so-called career in the cutthroat world of contemporary graphic design. Just a regular guy with a trajectory a little dirtier than yours, his talk is open to all oncomers brave enough to show up. If you are a youngster, you may find yourself inspired to attack your design future in a different way. If you are established, you may just leave feeling grateful you don't have anything to do with him. Hard to say. Be there!

The evening's frivolities will also include a proper South Dakota happy hour complete with a wayward food truck, tall boys, and DJ who may or may not spin The Flaming Lips, Son Volt, Dinosaur Jr, Buck Owens, Pavement, Buddy Red Bow, and/or Neil Young.

The DDC Merch Table will willfully hold up The Barn's crumbling foundation with a heft array of action caps, torso covers, patches, and a shitwhack of posters.