The 2009 CreativePro.com Gift Guide

Clothing
Create T-Shirt
This $26 long-sleeved T is screen-printed using water-based ink in a home shop by etsy seller Lofty Mornings. Part of a series, its sister shirts bear the words “peace” and “love.”

Chest Hair T-Shirt
A tangle of typographic swatches surrounds the words “chest hair” on this $22 t-shirt from Veer.

Lens T-Shirt
You’ve probably heard of Chase Jarvis as a photographer, but who knew he was also a clothing maker? His “Lens” t-shirt costs $50.

I Love Typography T-Shirt
For $20, tell the world how you feel about setting letters. From Artefacture.

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Books
The Graphic Eye: Photographs by Graphic Designers from Around the Globe
Stefan Bucher selected the images in The Graphic Eye from the personal photography portfolios of Ed Fella, Jeri Heiden, Marian Bantjes, and many other inventive designers. The book is $35.

Lickshot: A Photo Scrapbook
While Ben Watts’ photography clients are top-tier names (Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Nike, and many more), his shooting style is down to earth. This book, Watts’ scrapbook and travel diary, shows off his gritty style with 180 color and 20 black-and-white images. In hardcover, it costs $50.

A Shadow Falls
Photographer Nick Brandt captures a vanishing East Africa in this $50 book. Its 132 pages include 58 oversized tritone plates.

Pictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities
The 1,500+ engravings in this 512-page book are from 19th-century editions of the Webster’s dictionaries. John M. Carrera’s book is $35. There’s also an $18.95 companion stamp set, which includes 14 stamps selected from the flora and fauna engravings.

Binth Matching Game
It’s a nursery game that’s equally at home in a design studio. The 48 game tiles come in a slide-out case and cost $24.95.

Count
Modern design aficionados will appreciate this 12-page board book from DwellStudio. At $6.99, you can afford to hand them out to all the toddlers in your life.