...on licensing yourself to not be freaked out. Aaron Draplin is one of the most influential designers working in America today, the creator of Field Notes, the designer behind iconic and eclectic work for clients including Esquire, Nike, the Obama Administration, John Hodgeman and many, many more.     He spent the day at Philadelphia University on April 1st doing logo workshops and a talk about his new book Pretty Much Everything – a mid-career survey of his work filled with case studies and advice – and he sat down with Ryan for a few minutes to talk about the defiance of transparency, his new font DDC Hardware and the trials and tribulations of driving a big orange van.