Design Gifts Under $25

A perfect gift for those of us in love with lettering: a journal for sketching, tracing, and coloring classic typefaces, with an illustrated gallery with terminology and tips from the pros.

Notes, sketches or your deepest darkest secret, Blackwing's Slate Journal can handle them all. 160 pages of high-quality, 100GSM blank paper Durable dual-sewn, lay-flat binding Wear-resistant matte black hardcover Canvas spine and pencil holster loaded with a Blackwing 602 pencil Small 4.1" x 5.82" Medium 5" x 8.25" Large 8.25" x 11.7"

A beautiful notebook that allows the pages to unfurl 6 feet outward to accommodate your expansive ideas. This product collaboration with +Lab applies the desire for no borders to stationary, pushing the boundaries of paper art and how we commit our imaginations to the page. Colors: Ash, Vermillion, Craft, and Black Dimensions: 8.5” × 12” 48 perforated sheets Elastic strap to keep closed Yamazakura was established in 1931 to supply the Japanese market with high-quality paper products.

Remember when pencils were boring? Well, those days are long gone now. With its perfectly punched holes running along the barrel, Tät-Tat’s Punkt limewood Laser Sculpted Pencil offers a playful and tactile approach to creating. It’s Tät-Tat’s design answer to a classic tool. Color: Matte Lacquered Materials: Laser Sculpted Limewood Designed by Brigitta and Benedikt Martig-Imhof Made in Switzerland Tät-Tat, founded in 1994 near Zurich, produces playful design items that charm the eye and delight the mind. The husband and wife design team—Benedikt and Brigitta Martig-Imhof are former teachers who work hand in hand with social work programs and institutions throughout Switzerland and Germany, employing up to 300 persons with intellectual disabilities.

"Drawing on 'not white' is really nice. All of ITO’s products are very 'essential' which I find important in something you are doing work on. I want the design tool to disappear and their product does that." Jason Gregory, MAKR Kraft Mount Grey & Kraft Mount White 70 Sheets 210 x 168 mm

We’re not the first to admit our soft spot for Italian craftsmanship, but Perpetua’s story is also incredible on its own: a pencil made with the planet--and its inhabitants--in mind. Read: a pencil constructed consciously to communicate thoughts just as well as it does values. Mind. Blown. Colors: Blue, Black, Green, White, and Yellow Length: 19.5cm Diameter: 9mm Materials: Recycled Graphite Perpetua’s pencils are 80% recycled, do not contain wood, do not break easily and have nice big erasers, which are fused without an adhesive. It’s a cleaner pencil that does not leave graphite dust even in the pencil shavings. 100% recyclable, including the packaging.

Remember when pencils were boring? Well, those days are long gone now. It doesn't get me precise than Tät-Tat’s Eiffel Limewood Laser Sculpted Pencil. The complicated cuts in the barrel are as detailed as the person using it. It’s Tät-Tat’s design answer to a classic tool. Color: Matte Lacquered Materials: Laser Sculpted Limewood Designed by Brigitta and Benedikt Martig-Imhof Made in Switzerland Tät-Tat, founded in 1994 near Zurich, produces playful design items that charm the eye and delight the mind. The husband and wife design team—Benedikt and Brigitta Martig-Imhof are former teachers who work hand in hand with social work programs and institutions throughout Switzerland and Germany, employing up to 300 persons with intellectual disabilities.

The Blackwing Point Guard is designed to ensure your Blackwing pencil gets wherever you’re going in one piece. Crafted out of lightweight machined aluminum Point Guard goes over the point of your Blackwing pencil, keeping it safe in your bag, pocket, or pencil roll

Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Rubens, Picasso… many of our most revered masters were left handed. Here’s our contribution to the next genius. By Field Notes Ten percent of the world’s population is left-handed. We figured it was about time to make a memo book just for them. It’s identical to our Original Kraft Ruled Memo Book in every way except for this: we reversed the direction, and put the staples on the other side. 48-page memo book 3 Pack Each book measures 3-1/2" wide by 5-1/2" tall  Bound by a rugged three-staple saddle-stitch process

Take a memo. From ITO Bindery, the beloved Tokyo masters of Japanese paper design and goods since 1939, come the smart, smooth, and—dare we say—eternal memo blocks, for their architectural shape that nods to a geometric simplicity that we can’t really place in any one time period, past, present or future. And that’s the most characteristic Japanese aesthetic: functional beauty that’s built to last. White or Grey 350 Sheets 5.9" x 4.2"

The best things come in threes. Here’s a trio that doesn’t ask your creativity to choose just one direction. By Field Notes 48-page memo books as a Mixed 3-Pack Blank, Lined and Gridded  Each book measures 3-1/2" wide by 5-1/2" tall  Bound by a rugged three-staple saddle-stitch process

Remember when pencils were boring? Well, those days are long gone now. The intricately cut barrel of Tät-Tat’s Fisch Limewood Laser Sculpted Pencil shows just how details laser etching can be. It’s Tät-Tat’s design answer to a classic tool. Color: Matte Lacquered Materials: Laser Sculpted Limewood Designed by Brigitta and Benedikt Martig-Imhof Made in Switzerland Tät-Tat, founded in 1994 near Zurich, produces playful design items that charm the eye and delight the mind. The husband and wife design team—Benedikt and Brigitta Martig-Imhof are former teachers who work hand in hand with social work programs and institutions throughout Switzerland and Germany, employing up to 300 persons with intellectual disabilities.

The first thing most people notice—and admire—about these drawing pads are their razor-sharp aesthetic, and rightly so. These precision-cut blocks are assembled with an equally explicit geometry and color scheme. The resulting look is clean, straight, and meticulous, both limitless and perfectly contained. 70 satin-smooth sheets seamlessly bound to recycled cardboard, a home for art that is, itself, a work of art. Kraft, Kraft Mount Grey & Kraft Mount White 70 Sheets 148 x 125 mm

Take a memo. From ITO Bindery, the beloved Tokyo masters of Japanese paper design and goods since 1939, come the smart, smooth, and—dare we say—eternal memo blocks, for their architectural shape that nods to a geometric simplicity that we can’t really place in any one time period, past, present or future. And that’s the most characteristic Japanese aesthetic: functional beauty that’s built to last. Red, Grey or White 350 Sheets 4.2" x 4.2"

Just an artful spoonful of sugar, crafted with care. Colors: Black, Gloss Grey, and Natural 2.25" H x 3.25" W Materials: Porcelain and Clay Blend Care: Dishwasher and Microwave Safe Hasami Porcelain is designed by Takuhiro Shinomoto in Venice, CA, and made in Hasami, Japan, from a combination of Hasami clay and unglazed porcelain, fired at high temperatures for a lengthy period of time to achieve their signature textured finish. Due to its organic material and distinct environmental influences at the time of firing, each product actually develops its own character and patina over time. Designs are stain-resistant, microwave and dishwasher safe, and easy to stack, following the same principles of modularity as traditional Japanese tiered boxes.