Holiday Gift Guide #1 - Out of Architecture (Limited Edition)
IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR, UNLESS YOU’RE AN ARCHITECTURE STUDENT.
Around this time, they’ve got pin-ups and all-nighters and essays due, they’re battling for plotter appointments, and probably haven’t seen the sun since Halloween.
We know you love your architecture student and/or architectural professional. You just want them to be happy and ideally, to take a nap. That’s why we put together this visual gift guide. It’s an insider’s map on what to gift the hectic little creative in your life.
Here’s 16 of our top gift picks for 2023.
Disclaimer: all products featured were independently selected by our team and are not sponsored or promotional. However, if you purchase something through our links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
01. AN OSTRICH PILLOW.
We imagine a world where architecture students don’t need to shove their face into a padded egg thing to rest under the unrelenting fluorescent lights in studio.
We hope to live in it one day.
But we don’t. Till then. Ostrich Pillow.
Designers love mini things.
Mini finger skateboards, mini sticks, mini bricks, mini existential breakdowns.
Give them what they really want this Christmas.
Which is tiny scale construction materials. And a sense of direction.
Make them feel really fancy and like, kind of Italian.
The architecture school economy runs on coffee beans.
This is the way to their professor’s heart, short of a tenure-track position or a cash bribe.
They can build the kit themselves, and then the plant will never die. No worries about light conditions and watering schedules.
Architecture students can barely water themselves.
Ba-dum tissss.
This one is passive aggressive.
Or borderline literally aggressive. You may make an enemy of them.
But why hide the truth? You’re doing their studio-mates a public service.
Please be kind and reapply.
It’s 7:22am on review day.
Your eyes can’t focus because you were up until 6:49am on review day.
You don’t have to guess if your pin-up is level, because you have this. A 3D laser level.
Your drawings are straight. Choir music plays.
They don’t go outside. That’s the joke.
Good for deep sleep, headaches, naps, and it’s machine washable. Peak luxury.
Combine this with the laser level if you like a themed gift.
They’ll be everyone’s new best friend on site visits and construction sites.
So, good for meeting people. Might get annoying when they start measuring everything.
It’s like giving them a family heirloom.
Very aspirational. And they’ll feel really impressive in the woodshop.
More fancy tools!
Again, fancy, tiny, metal objects make you the coolest kid on the construction site.
Or the one everyone laughs at, but who cares, it’s still adorable.
Everyone has that one friend who has the swanky pencils.
This is a gift for that friend.
For their overpriced pencil habit.
Maybe you don’t want to enable their caffeine habit. That’s honestly really thoughtful.
This option is also fancy and still vaguely Italian. Arch students always end up idolizing Italy.
Sincerely, a very cool gift.
Amazon says this is for a “maker/geek”.
You know one of those!
15. A 2024 ERRIA WALL CALENDAR.
A 2024 Wall Calendar that highlights over 100 global designers and makers from our friends at Erria!
It is joyful yet practical and makes such a great gift for design-minded folks!
Okay we don’t want to be too obvious, but reminder... (some shameless self-promotion incoming)...
It covers stories from school, the profession, and gets students to get perspective on the real-world value of their education.
