Are you wondering what you could give a designer for Christmas? It's not always the obvious choice that gets the best reaction, so we canvased the studio for some ideas...
First up we have a handy list of last minute options you can purchase and print off for a subscription or creative workshop experience. Then we have some ideas you can order online for delivery and finally some ideas for those of you with a bigger budget, looking for an investment piece.
Last minute options when it's too late to post:
- Subscription to Wired magazine (great source of inspiration every month)
- Museum membership to the Design Museum. Gets you access to next year's exhibitions free. For the trainer obsessed, simply an early bird ticket for the Design Museums Sneakers Unboxed exhibition
- Ticket to Gingerbread City at Somerset House (challenges leading architects, engineers and designers to create a futuristic city made entirely of gingerbread)
- Subscription to the New Scientist
- Spoon carving day class or gifts for the wannabee spoon carver, with Barn the Spoon
- One of Trevor Flynn's courses at The Drawing Gym for architects - it motivates people to communicate effectively and provides skills for expressing ideas in the design process
Gifts that require a little bit of planning:
- A gift from the Design Museum shop - so many good ideas for every price range
- For the young designer setting up home choose from this range of Pantone Espresso cups
- Theo Jansen’s work is fascinating - perhaps a fossil or a book
- Super shock proof Mous iphone case for clumsy hands, but still slim
- Beautiful flat packed potr pots: origami self- watering plant pots made from 100% recycled materials (this gift is worth the wait, but beware it won't arrive till February next year)
- Ethical and funky pairs of socks by Stand4Socks for every occasion. But even better, for each pair bought Stand4Socks donates a pair to the homeless
Money no object:
- How about this mesmerising clock clock by Humans in Sweden
- Might be a bit expensive for a Christmas pressie but for a designer/maker this desktop factory by Makyu is wicked
- A beautiful time piece by eone designed for touch when you can't easily use sight
- A piece by ANIMARO design. Engineering art for the home of meditative beauty