• exotic surfaces
• Kirby calculus
• symplectic geometry

A pair of smoothly embedded surfaces in a 4-manifold X is said to be exotic if they are topologically isotopic but not smoothly isotopic. Building on Hayden's work, we construct infinitely many pairs of exotic, symplectic ribbon disks in B^4. The construction is explicit, allowing the resulting disks to be drawn by hand. By capping these disks off in larger 4-manifolds, we obtain infinite pairs of exotic closed surfaces. Finally, we discuss extensions to the higher-genus case.