Last Minute Gifts for the In-House Creative in your Life

WHOA! It’s already Gift Getting season! If you’ve found yourself without any gifts for your favorite In-House Graphic Jockeys while shipping time challenges your good intentions, here’s a list, in no particular order, featuring some of Team Designorati’s favorite items available online and in the store!*

In House Reading

How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul

How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul Late this fall, Princeton Architectural Press released How to be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul by Adrian Shaughnessy. This book is essential for all graphic designers who want to have a firm grasp on the business-side of the industry. It is chock full of information on key topics such as “Being freelance”, “Setting up a studio”, “Winning new work”, and “Self-promotion”.

This Book Will Change Your Life Again!

This Book Will Change Your Life Again! With activites like “Claim You’re Jesus Day,” “Lobby Celine Dion to Sing for You,” and “Speed-read War and Peace” Ben Carey and Henrik Delehag’s follow-up to
This Book Will Change Your Life will make the perfect gift for any in-house creative looking to break a daily routine. Also known as Benrik, the authors have filled these pages with 365 different activities, creating a daily read which just might change your life!

Cubicle Love

Pentagram Large Calendar

Pentagram Large Calendar Designed by Pentagram, this practical calendar can live mounted to a wall like art or flat on a desk to collect sandwich crumbs.

cableyoyo

cableyoyo Let your creative wind-up, then unwind the complex web of headphone cords she weaves with this handy little cable spool.

Colorful CD Cubes

CD Cube With all the Top Bazillion Albums of 2005 getting published in lists all over the internets, your designer-y friends will be getting DRM’d and DRM-free music gifts from every cardinal point. Buck the trend with these cool plastic cubes that contain the music in colorful style. At under 5 bills a piece, the blue, black, white, and green cubes will help keep your creative pal organized and happy, at least until space runs out on his desk.

Geek Toys

The Cubes

The Cubes No longer will your coworker complain about being the lowest on the totem pole with these plastic mini-cube dwellers. Various sets are available and expansion sets like Delivery Man, Sensitivity Consultant, and Corporate Protester round out the little office environment.

Football Tape

Foot Ball Tape This tape will make any ball of paper into a proper football (or soccer ball in American). Wrap up your mistake, dribble it down the hall, wind up for a kick, then… G-O-A-L!

Singing Birds

Singing Birds Bring the outside in with plastic birds. Made to sing like the real thing from recordings by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, these little tweaters are modeled after hand-sculpted models by Dr. Tsutomu Suzuki of the University of Tokyo.

*Although we’ve listed a bunch of gift ideas from large retailers in the U.S., we’re in no way promoting them instead of any local retailers you favor shopping with. These retailers happen to have one thing going for them — they’re either National or Regional establishments with an online shopping and shipping presence.