Holiday Gift Guide #2 - Out of Architecture (Limited Edition)
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 14 of our top gift picks for 2023.
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01. THIS FLW PATTERN PUZZLE FROM THE MOMA DESIGN STORE.
The architect in your life will be impressed if you get them anything from the MoMA design store.
You will be their super cool, in-the-know uncle/aunt forever.
Get with it, or whatever the kids say now.
What they actually need is a literal saline IV drip.
Like one of the highly bioavailable vitamin infusions they give to Olympic athletes.
But that’s an impractical gift.
This is a good gift.
They need the minerals.
This may seem very 2018.
But this spinner is a stainless steel bearing that’s designed to be extremely silent and smooth.
Perfect for long structures lectures.
Also, architects just like little metal things.
More fantastic little metal things.
These keyrings from Craighill can hold their locker keys, house keys, and those member discount tab things they give you at Home Depot.
Upgrade their carabiner keyring.
I mean, who needs a basic, boring eyewear stand when you can have a piece of avant-garde art in your living room, right?
Best gift. Especially for those who wear non-prescription ones just to keep up with its level of coolness for the final 2023 crit.
More fancy MoMA-ness.
There’s always one architecture student that makes color theory class their new personality.
This is what they want.
It's not exactly breaking news that our marathon staring sessions at the computer, clocking in at a solid 12+ hours a day, are doing a real number on our peepers.
Let's extend a little kindness to those precious pair of orbs.
Remember, you're only issued two, and trust us, no architectural design is worth squandering one of those limited edition eyeballs on!
We all have that one friend who cannot stop sketching.
For your friends who like brutalism but area also good at keeping plants alive.
Fake plants work, too.
10. 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!
Nothing better than a swanky computer stand to lift your overpriced laptop off your desk.
That way when your professor knocks over that two-day-old cold brew, only your drawings are ruined and not your tech.
Okay, this list might be overly saturated with tiny metal objects.
Here’s another cool one though.
Okay we don’t want to be too obvious, but reminder... (some shameless self-promotion incoming)...
