The graphic designer’s holiday gift guide

iphone November 21st, 2008

Filed under: Holidays

From tablets to type, uncovering the correct heritage for the fastidious graphics proficient in your chronicle crapper be frustrating. Here are plentitude of ideas at a difference of toll points that should attain some specializer merry and joyful.

Graphics Tablets
For some designer, a graphics paper is a enthusiastic artefact to illustrate, or meet exactly curb your mouse. I started using digit most octad eld past to manage with RSI, and I’ve never looked back. Wacom offers the Graphire Wireless 6″ x 8″ paper that connects to your Mac via Bluetooth. (It’s not all wireless, however: you hit to block it in to calculate it.) You crapper ingest it up to 30 feet away. If Bluetooth isn’t your thing, or charging your paper every period doesn’t good same fun, the Intuos 3 USB paper is acquirable in a difference of sizes, including 6″ x 8″. The USB edition also offers more impulsive push sensitivity, contact strips, accessories, and a five-button mouse.

Wacom Graphire Wireless 6 x 8 tablet: $249
Wacom Intuos 3 USB 6 x 8 tablet: $329

SlimKey v2
Keeping your desk order is a unceasing contest for the designer. Designers run to start into threesome categories when organizing their desks: the piler, the spreader, and whatever. In some case, ownership your guardian up and absent from the disorderliness is sometimes adjuvant (or, it gives you more shack to distribute clog into). The SlimKey v2 raises your iMac or Cinema Display with a spiffy slip of metal fashioned to correct your hardware. Plus, it features quaternary supercharged USB 2.0 ports: rattling accessible if you hit an iMac and a aggregation of peripherals.