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Best Holiday Gifts for the Designers and Developers in Your Life – 2011 Edition

Posted on 21. Dec, 2011 by bmackler in Photoshop, Resources

Its that time of the year again, trying to find the best gifts for web designers and developers in your life. As we all know satisfying this interesting breed may not always be easy but with a little preparation you can pick up the perfect gift for the holiday season. Creative types aren’t usually looking for a new tie, gift voucher or cologne. It takes something with a bit more intrigue and style to wow them.

Today lets take a look at some of the best holiday gifts of 2011 for the creative types in your life.

Aeron Chair by Herman Miller

$800

The Aeron chair didn’t end up in the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection just because it looks cool. Although it does. Its looks are only the beginning. Aeron accommodates both the sitter and the environment. It adapts naturally to virtually every body, and it’s 94% recyclable. Even if it’s black, it’s green.

Herman Miller Aeron Chair

Inkling by Wacom

$175

Inkling lets you get back to the drawing board, or the drawing paper rather. But if you always regret that you started out with pen and paper, then you can have the best of both worlds with Inkling. The digital sketch pen allows you to sketch with a real ballpoint pen on any paper, and all your drawing strokes are recorded electronically. Once drawn, the images are then recorded and transferred to digital files which are compatible with Illustrator, Photoshop etc.

Wacom Inkling

Fisheye, Macro, Wide Angle and Telephoto Phone Lenses by Photojojo

$20-30 each

Fisheye, Telephoto, and Macro/Wide Angle Cell Phone Lenses for your smartphone. These finely constructed lenses transform your standard phone photos into wide, up-close, super zoomed and wonderfully warped wonders.

Fisheye, Macro, Wide Angle and Telephoto Phone Lenses by Photojojo

Walls Notebook

$17.95

A look into the use of urban walls that provide a blank, yet interesting canvas for notes, music, drawings and doodles. An aspiring street artist’s dream: a notebook that, in lieue of blank pages, is filled with photos of blank New York City walls.

Walls Notebook

Map of the Known Universe

$10.00

Show the universe you aren’t afraid to get lost. After all, you have this handy map to get you out of nearly any jam. This 30” wide x 20” tall map features regional, galactic, and universal attractions

Map of Known Universe

YOU ARE THE CSS TO MY HTML TEE

$25

Show the world your geeky side with the “You Are The CSS to My HTML” t-shirt!

YOU ARE THE CSS TO MY HTML TEE

Nomad Brush

Starting at $25

The Nomad brush is made of natural and synthetic fiber that allows you to paint on your iPad. It creates a more realistic experience of digital painting, as compared to using your finger or a stylus.

Nomad Brush

Incipio iPhone 4S Boomproof Silicone case

$29

Incipio’s gear covers and protects iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macbooks, Blackberries, Tablets, eReaders, Smartphones and much more. There’s a style or case for everyone and everything.

Incipio iPhone 4 4S BOMBPROOF Silicone Case

IdeaPaint Dry Erase Whiteboard

$179.00

IdeaPaint is a dry erase whiteboard paint that turns virtually anything into an erasable canvas. Imagine an entire room as one giant sketch pad. IdeaPaint can be applied almost anywhere to create interactive play areas, work spaces in a home office, or a message center in the kitchen.

Ideapaint Dry Erase Board

Black and White Wall Clock

$179

The Black and White Clock is designed by Vadim Kibardin. The minimalist aesthetic is clean and beautiful.

Black and White Wall Clock

Batman and Joker Thumb Drive

$24.99

If you admire Batman’s moral code, give your precious files to him. Just remember that he won’t kill anyone to protect them. If, on the other hand, you’d like someone more conniving to watch your stuff, The Joker’s ready to help. Each one has 4 GB of storage, so your only choice is whether you side with good or evil.

Batman and Joker Thumb Drives

iPhone Coasters

$59.99

16 Coasters made in the design of iPhone Apps

iPhone App Coasters

Muji Touchscreen Gloves

$25.99

A conductive material is interwoven into the thumb and forefinger so that these gloves make Light work of touchscreen technology whatever the weather.

Muji Touchscreen Gloves

Layers Frame

$19.99

Spend all day staring at artboards? Why not add some to your office. The Layers Frame comes with a metal support with a picture magnet frame and looks great with both photos and illustrations.

Layers Frame

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

$299

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the first device – ever – to carry Google’s Android Ice Cream Sandwich update, which brings a whole host of new features, tweaks and updates to the world’s most popular platform. Its also a gorgeous handset to boot, featuring a massive 4.6-inch Super AMOLED HD display (that’s 720p, by the way), 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a 5-megapixel camera and either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. Making it perhaps the best new smartphone on the market.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus

Thinking With Type

$24.95

Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering.

Thinking with Type

Apple Thunderbolt Display

$950

With built-in Thunderbolt technology – the fastest, most flexible I/O ever – the Apple Thunderbolt Display can do things other displays simply can’t. Of course, it delivers a brilliant viewing experience. But connect it to any Thunderbolt-enabled Mac and it becomes a Plug-and-Play hub for everything you do. Features include a high-resolution 2560-by-1440 LED-backlit display, a FaceTime HD camera, high-quality audio, three USB 2.0 ports, a FireWire 800 port, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and a Thunderbolt port for daisy-chaining additional high-performance devices.

27inch Thunderbolt Display

Doodle Diary

$12.99

Not only does it help you keep track of whats going on ,on what day, the Doodle Diary helps you create a personal catalogue of your daily sketches. It can even make a fantastic flick book or helps you to progress from a rough sketch to a more finished version

Doodle Diary

Pac Man Stapler

Pac Man is a legend in a video game world. With Pac Man Stapler you can play pac man in your office when you are working.

Pac Man Stapler

The Vector Brushes Sourcebook: 300 Unique Brushes for Digital Illustration

$12.99

The Vector Brush Sourcebook is a one-stop resource for designers and illustrators who want to learn more about illustrator brushes—how to make them, apply them, edit them, and use them to stunning effect. Digital brushes are powerful and flexible tools that can speed up and enhance the creative workflow; this book will help unleash their potential.