Santa is not the only one making a list and checking it twice–we at Artisan have been finding some great gift ideas for the creatives in our lives all over. Wonderful design and clever ideas come together to make some really cool gifts this year:
You never know when or where your friend might get a brilliant idea, but if they jot it down in one of these Moleskine Evernote Notebooks, those ideas will never be forgotten. Take a photo with the Evernote Camera and their wireframe idea, doodle or blog topic will be saved in their online notebook as well as on paper. They come as journals or sketchbooks.
Designers think in color and drink a lot of coffee to keep to their deadlines. You can combine the two with these Pantone Coffee Mugs or if they don’t drink coffee but do love color and you have a pretty big budget, how about a full set of Pantone Color Swatch Books?
If your coffee-drinking friend is a copywriter, they might appreciate these mugs when they are proofreading. Sure to make them go “Arrgghh!”
And to keep all that coffee warm while they are working at their computer, how about a USB coffee warmer?
Don’t know why I love them, but tea towels are some of my favorite gifts. These tea towels designed by former Art Director, Writer and Creative Director Emily McDowell are perfect for your creative foodie friends:
We were really inspired by this list of 100 Gifts for Freelancers at Design Blender and here are a couple of our favorites:
Solar Phone Charger–even works stuck to an airplane window!
The 13th Edition of The Graphic Artist’s Guild Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines–Freelancers are always nervous about how much they should charge for their work and how to handle difficulties with clients. This should help in 2014.
Make their year with a subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud.
Only 8 days to Christmas! We would love to hear what your favorite gifts for the creatives on your list are this year!
Wendy Stackhouse for Artisan Creative