16 Gifts Graphic Designers Secretly Want to Open on Christmas Day
Choosing the perfect Christmas gift is tough. Especially when you are buying for a graphic designer with a very particular aesthetic whose hobbies including staring at screens and critiquing the menu at every brunch session (won’t stop! can’t stop!). From practical work tools, to desk decor and after-hours relaxation - here are a handful of gift ideas that would make any creative jump for joy.
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1. Frankie Tortoise Blue Light Glasses // Who needs beauty sleep when you can wrap your peepers in these blue light specs?
2. Sweet Jane Gingham Heat Pack // A little packet of comfort for the overnighter-at-my-desk aches.
3. Australian Christmas Gin // Gin is always a winner, but this picture-perfect label design makes it a hard favourite on the liquor shelf.
4. Passion. Purpose. Profit by Fiona Killackey // All the wisdom every designer needs to push their creative hustle to the next level.
5. Japanese Beetle Insect Puzzle // Part activity for busy hands. Part desktop decor. Perfection.
6. Rustic Paint Palette // A cute paint palette for the painters who appreciate where function meets form.
7. Apple Pencil Tips // For the illustration obsessed designer who always has their next sketch in mind.
8. Giant Wooden Pencil // Guaranteed to make a stationery-geek go ga-ga.
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9. Spark Creativity // For all the times the spark of creativity eludes.
10. Lunch Lady magazine // Creative craft projects and recipes, designed in an uber-colourful way and all printed on a wonderfully tactile matte paper stock.
11. Curl Curl Candle // Light the wick for after-hours relaxation with a dash of the unexpected.
12. Maple Munchies // Crunchy snacks? The best! Glass jar to up-cycle as storage for a myriad of paintbrushes and pencils? Even better!
13. Matcha Green Chocolate // Level-up the 3.30-itis raid of the snack cupboard with a bougie chocolate selection.
14. Chino Mug Navy Lines // Coffee break. But make it super cute.
15. Lavender Essential Oil // Combat the inevitable need-it-yesterday deadline stress with a desktop diffuser and a drop of lavender.
16. Power Ballad Coffee Beans // If I’m going to reach for the coffee beans every morning then I NEED it to be wrapped in great packaging.
Chanell x