46 Awesome Holiday Gifts for Designers By Creative Market Creative Market on May 2, 2016 in Inspiration Tweet This Share This The holidays are a jovial time of year, but they can also be stressful when finding trying to find the right gift for the designers in your life. We've put together a guide with 46 awesome ideas for designers to help you find the perfect holiday gift. 1. Smashing Book 5 - Real Life RWD Another edition in the great series of Smashing books, Smashing Book 5 explains the ins and outs of real-life responsive web design. Save 2. A Book Apart - You're My Favorite Client In Mike Monteiro's second book, he demystifies the design process and helps designers prepare for the role. 3. Shine a Light Flowy V-Neck Every designer needs a cool, comfy tee-shirt to wear. Proceeds from the sale of this shirt go to Autism Awareness. Save 4. Wherever You Go Flowy Long Sleeve Tee Sometimes there's a romantic sentiment to get across. T-shirts like this one are great for letting your friends say what they feel. Save 5. Live Loud Flowy V-Neck This Live Loud V-Neck is a great gift for designers with fierce instincts and a need to express themselves. Save 6. Weather Ball Tee This tee-shirt sports an elegant and simplistic design of Dribbble's weathered ball on a soft, cranberry-colored background. Save 7. The Instax Printer This cool little printer prints out phone pictures in the palm of the user's hand — it's wireless, so it can be taken it anywhere. Save 8. Form Function Coffee T-Shirt Let your designer friends express what they are really thinking with this fitted "Form follows Function which follows Coffee" white t-shirt. Save 9. Not a Hipster T-Shirt Don't let your friends risk being grouped in with the hipsters. They can announce who they really are with this "I'm a Designer not a Hipster" t-shirt. Save 10. Logo Board Game The Logo Board Game will test your friends' knowledge of famous logos; it's a designer's dream come true. Save 11. Fly X3 This handy motorized phone stabilizer grabs perfectly still shots and videos on an iPhone. It's also compact and easy to carry. Save 12. Confidant Hardcover Notebook A designer can never have TOO many notebooks. This one has a sturdy hardcover that can take a beating. Save 13. BelayCords BelayCords are a durable and attractive way to charge up devices via USB. Save 14. SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick This wireless stick is a flash drive that works with both computers and mobile devices. Save 15. Fancy CMYK Playing Cards This set of playing cards was designed by and for graphic designers -- they make a perfect stocking stuffer. Save 16. Bamboo Spark This digital notebook from Wacom lets users take notes and ideas from the paper straight into the Cloud. Save 17. Autodesk Graphic This powerful feature-packed vector drawing and illustration app is the perfect gift for designers this holiday season. Save 18. Satechi Type-C USB Combo Hub For users that have more things to plug in than a computer can handle, this all-in-one USB hub is the best way to neatly organize and make room for all external devices. Save 19. Grovemade Desk Accessories This laptop stand is an attractive way to lift a computer up to eye level. Save 20. Bruer Slow Drip Cold Brew Coffee Iced coffee just tastes better when it's cold-brewed, that's why the Slow Drip coffee maker comes in handy. Save 21. External Portable MacBook Battery Whether designers are traveling for work or pleasure, sometimes it's important for them to have an external battery to keep their MacBook juiced up for extra hours. 22. Premium Coffee Subscription Coffee makes the perfect gift for designers. They need something to keep them revved up during long projects. Save 23. Monthly Art Supplies Subscription What designer wouldn't love cool new art supplies showing up on their doorstep every month? Save 24. Making Ideas Happen This great book by Scott Belsky talks about overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality. Save 25. Smartcuts Shane Snow, one of the lead writers for the wildly popular Contently blog, shares secrets on how hackers, innovators and icons can accelerate success in his book Smartcuts. Save 26. Flow One of the most classic and beloved books on the art of living, Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is of value to all kinds of designers. Save 27. Pen Type-A This elegant pen is made of stainless steel and slips into a beautiful laser-engraved steel ruler casing. Save 28. Girlboss This book offers advice from the founder and CEO of Nasty Gal. Save 29. Girlboss Reading List White Oak Creative came out with this awesomely important reading list for creative entrepreneurs and bloggers, and it makes a wonderful gift. Save 30. Apple Pencil The Apple Pencil is a handy little stylus that makes precise movements even easier on the iPad Pro. Save 31. Under-the-Jack Pack Sometimes designers don't want to flash their laptop to the world. This pack helps conceal it under their jacket while they're out on the town. Save 32. Mod Notebooks This paper notebook lets designers sketch as they normally would, and it can sync all of their designs to the Cloud. Save 33. Word Notebooks with Bullet Point System Designers can get life and work organized with this cool Word Notebooks and bullet point system. Save 34. Apple TV The new Apple TV makes it even more fun to watch the telly, and users can even search for shows using their voice! Save 35. 7th Anniversary Set from UgMonk If your designer friends are into a sleek, minimalist style, they'll love this classy limited edition set from Ugmonk. Save 36. Premium Ampersand Crew neck Who wouldn't love a cool, monochromatic sweatshirt with an Ampersand design? Save 37. Narrative Clip This is literally the world's most wearable camera -- users can clip it anywhere and go! Narrative Clip 2 Video Reel from Narrative on Vimeo. 38. DXO One DXO One is a professional-quality connected camera that pairs with an iPhone to make it possible for designers to take amazing photos wherever they go. Save 39. Moment 60mm This is the only external lens ever needed to produce amazing, high-quality photos on an iPhone. Save 40. MonoWear Apple Watch Make your friend's Apple Watch even more wearable with this sweet brown leather watch band. Save 41. Jabra MOVE Wireless Bluetooth Headset It's always more fun to design with music. Your friend will love working while wearing these amazing wireless stereo headphones. Save 42. The Legend of Zelda Hard Drive Go retro with this cool throwback USB 8-bit hard drive that's made to look like the original Nintendo game. Save 43. Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2 TB External Hard Drive This slim and slick hard drive has 200 GB of Cloud storage and mobile device backup. Save 44. FontFace FontFace is the complete guide to creating, marketing and selling digital fonts. Save 45. SkyRoam SkyRoam is the cool hotspot that makes it possible to connect to unlimited global Wi-Fi data anywhere in the world. Save 46. Bluboon Canvas Backpack This is probably the coolest backpack you will find for the price, and it has lots of pockets for designer tools and toys. Save There are lots of unique, designer-friendly holiday gifts to choose from, making your shopping experience easier. Spread some holiday cheer with one of these great gifts for designers. Free lettering worksheets Download now! Download now! Getting started with hand lettering? Download these worksheets and start practicing with simple instructions and tracing exercises.
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Shop Architect Oh man, those Word notebooks look amazing! You are totally right that there can never be too many notebooks. I like to make sure they are strategically located everywhere to capture inspiration wherever it may strike! Feb 6, 2017
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