Unleash the full potential of every graphic designer with gifts that inspire and ignite creativity.
Do you have a professional pilot or aviation enthusiast who eats, sleeps, and breathes flying? It’s more than just a job or hobby – it’s a passion. In this list, we have carefully selected the fun gifts you can give the pilot. Here are the best gift ideas any aviator will love.
How about a fancy set of vibrant markers or a swanky pen that will make their doodles pop? Don’t forget to throw in a quirky and inspiring art print to decorate their workspace and keep those creative juices flowing. Trust us; these gifts will have your favorite graphic designer doing cartwheels of joy!
1. Portable Color Sensor
Need a little inspiration? Use the Inspire feature within the Color Muse app to see scanned colors incorporated into interior design settings and color palettes to help you plan your next update or renovation. You can also view coordinating colors and build and save custom color palettes within the app. A handy gift for a graphic designer
2. Pantone Post Cards
Graphic designers wait for Pantone’s color of the year announcement like football fans wait for Super Sunday! These postcards will make their day. This makes a fun stocking stuffer for your favorite graphic designer.
3. Lightbox
Ideal for stenciling, 2D animation, calligraphy, embossing, sketching & drawing. This tracing pad will help them do the job while easing eye strain with a protective film. Adjust the light freely with the touch-sensitive button. It is simply a better way to find your ideal lighting, and it will remember your good brightness last time of use.
4. Wacom Drawing Tablet
This drawing tablet allows for high precision when drawing, painting, and Photoshop editing in virtually all software programs. The tablet is compatible with Mac, PC, Chromebook, and Android smartphones and tablets. When registering the Intuos on a Mac or PC, they’ll receive trial periods of several helpful software programs.
5. The Design Thinking Toolbox
The Design Thinking Toolbox explains the essential tools and methods to put Design Thinking into action. Based on the most extensive international survey on the use of design thinking, the most popular methods are described in four pages each by an expert from the global Design Thinking community. If you are involved in innovation, leadership, or design, you need these tools. Simple instructions, expert tips, templates, and images help you implement each device or method.
6. Pantone Color Guide
A Pantone Color Guide is essential for a graphic designer. However, this specific one is designed for web designers because it converts shades into CMYK, HTML, and RGN values, so the colors are accurately displayed on a screen. It’s one of the best gifts you can give someone who makes a living in graphic design, but it is a bit pricey, creating a perfect “big” Christmas gift!
7. Adobe Illustrator Shortcuts Keyboard
Provide AI shortcuts for any Illustrator, especially for new designers unfamiliar with Illustrator hotkeys. This will help to increase their work efficiency. Each XSKN silicone skin is heat molded to ensure each color is hand-screened using silicone paint, which is heat fused into the silicone keyboard skin to become one, making soft, ultra-thin, durable, and easy-to-wash keys. It’s a really cool graphic design gift for your favorite creators.
8. Productivity Clock
Time can get lost when you’re deep in design work. A stylish and innovative digital desk timer and the clock will help them be more productive. Turn the timer position to start and stop the countdown. Display the countdown time remaining on the LCD screen. Adjustable volume control in 3 levels: High, Low, and Silent. Flashing back-lit visual alert.
9. Lap Desk
This lap desk lets them create a workspace anywhere! The desk holds laptops up to 15.6 inches, and most tablets have a vertical slot for a phone and a mouse pad work surface. The bolster cushion keeps their lap and their gadgets cool via airflow.
10. Computer Glasses
Graphic designers spend long hours staring at a computer screen to the point the pixels shift out of focus! These retro-style computer glasses can help prevent the eye strain of staring at a screen all day. The unisex glasses block blue light, which leads to eye strain and can cause poor sleep. This pair includes a carrying case.
11. Key Chain
Especially if it’s Comic Sans or Serif! How could you?! This stainless steel key chain is the perfect gift for the graphic designer, especially if they’re snarky! The critical chain arrives in a velvet gift bag, a great gift for your coworker.
12. Sakura Pens
Graphic designers need pens that have perfect ink flow and are smooth for their precise work, even when it’s free-hand brainstorming work. These pens won’t disappoint. There are six pens, and the ink is black.
13. Graphic Design Book
The field of graphic design has a fascinating history, and this book covers it. The book contains more than 1,400 images detailing the artistic and technological advances that make up the world of graphic design we know today.
14. Stylus Pen
A high-quality stylus is one of the most valuable gifts a graphic designer could receive. This pen is made from stainless steel and aluminum. The stylus is compatible with many devices, including iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and phones, and e-readers. In addition, the transparent disc on the end provides a smooth performance.
15. Standing Desk
Sitting down for hours a day is bad for your health. Instead, help them get the blood flowing with this standing desk. The desk’s height can be adjusted, and the wheels make it easy to move around their home or office.
16. Coffee Mug
What other kind of coffee mug would a graphic designer use? This mug is an excellent gift for a minimalist too! The porcelain mug comes in a matching gift box and is dishwasher safe.
17. Abstract Glass Print
Graphic designers are artists just as surely as painters or poets, so a lovely print makes a great visual designer gift! This abstract piece is printed on glass and framed using recycled materials. The image measures 18 x 24 inches.
18. Laptop Backpack
This bag is excellent for day-to-day use and makes a beautiful travel backpack. The bag can accommodate a laptop up to 17 inches in size, has a USB charging port and RFID pockets to protect your personal information, and repels water. In addition, the bag is lightweight, weighing just over three pounds.
19. Power Dock
Never fight over a charger again! This power dock comes with six composite USB cables and can store and charge up to six smartphones and mini tablets simultaneously while keeping everything in one place.
20. Minimalist Alarm Clock
This alarm clock is a unique gift that graphic designers will love. It’s elegant and functional! Made of wood, the watch has three alarms, an LED display, and shows the temperature and humidity. In addition, the clock is available in two other finishes, both darker.
