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Caveman

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Some friends of ours have a son that is graduating with a degree in Art with an emphasis in graphical design. He's probably going to try for a Masters degree in art history.

We wanted to get him a small gift(s) worth ~$50.

His mom said he's into ink pen drawing right now and would probably like some "black ink Pigma Pens"...

Any other ideas?
 
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Caveman

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He didn't go into art because he wants to make money... He lives in a shack right now and doesn't care... We'd like to get him something art related...
 
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Vdubchaos

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Caveman said:
He didn't go into art because he wants to make money... He lives in a shack right now and doesn't care... We'd like to get him something art related...
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Art degree ehh?

I have a feeling it will continue to be this way as well.
 
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xanis

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Give him the gift of my advice.

Tell him to skip grad school and learn to code instead. There's a big need for designers that know front-end development, and he'd have a much, much easier time getting an internship/job. Tell him to also take some classes on HCI and usability so he can learn about UX design. It's a large and growing field and there's a constant need for multirole designers.

To address your original question, OP, here are some suggestions for tangible things that I'd have wanted when I was starting out:

"Thinking With Type" by Ellen Lupton
"Design Is A Job" by Mike Monteiro

Moleskine notebook - large/plain
Pigma pens
Prismacolor Markers (small set)

I'll add more if I think of anything.

<-- Went to art school, is currently a successful practicing designer
 
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smackababy

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Give him a job, that is the best gift you can give a man who just wasted $50k on a skill set that has zero employability. Or, give him a coffee machine. He better learn to use one soon, otherwise, he will never make it to Starbucks manager!
 
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Train

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xanis said:
A traditional designer, no. a UX/UI Designer? Yes, absolutely.
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Ya, we pay our front end designer $100/hour

She's good, can design a very professional looking site, and even provide the nice clean HTML/CSS.

Left to the coders we would have clashing color schemes, shitty inconsistent buttons, wrong choice of fonts, etc.
 
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smackababy

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Train said:
Ya, we pay our front end designer $100/hour

She's good, can design a very professional looking site, and even provide the nice clean HTML/CSS.

Left to the coders we would have clashing color schemes, shitty inconsistent buttons, wrong choice of fonts, etc.
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We just let out users decided what they want, as far as that stuff. If they want stupid colors and wingdings as their font and the BA's sign off on it, fine by me.
 
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Midwayman

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A set of good tech pens with ink cartridges and different sized nibs would probably be around that. If you don't know, a gift cert to dick blick always works. Art major, animator, teaches at art school here.
 
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Lonyo

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God forbid people do something they enjoy rather than focusing on money for their entire life.
 
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xanis said:
Give him the gift of my advice.

Tell him to skip grad school and learn to code instead. There's a big need for designers that know front-end development, and he'd have a much, much easier time getting an internship/job. Tell him to also take some classes on HCI and usability so he can learn about UX design. It's a large and growing field and there's a constant need for multirole designers.

To address your original question, OP, here are some suggestions for tangible things that I'd have wanted when I was starting out:

"Thinking With Type" by Ellen Lupton
"Design Is A Job" by Mike Monteiro

Moleskine notebook - large/plain
Pigma pens
Prismacolor Markers (small set)

I'll add more if I think of anything.

<-- Went to art school, is currently a successful practicing designer
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Best advice on this forum in a long time
 
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VulgarDisplay

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Trust me. I was was an art major. Buy him a book on deciding on a college major. He, like me, obviously chose VERY poorly.
 
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a barista uniform

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Vdubchaos

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Lonyo said:
God forbid people do something they enjoy rather than focusing on money for their entire life.
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There is dreams and then there is reality.

Out of gazillion people that dream and chase those dreams, SMALL percentage actually get there.

And no one said ANYTHING about chasing money. I know I wouldn't......but ANY career path should be realistic and one should be able to obtain a decent job once graduated.

I wanted to be a car designer (my dream). Guess what back in the late 90s, there are 2 studios in entire country.......1200 students graduated every year and about a handful positions within the car companies (if that) every year. And that was LONG before recession too, I'm sure it hasn't gotten better.

That's not too realistic now, is it? I could've chased my dream and neglected my family while doing so, I just didn't think dream was a priority over family at the time.
 
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Train

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Lonyo said:
God forbid people do something they enjoy rather than focusing on money for their entire life.
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I'm a coder, I got into coding because I wanted to make video games. 99% of coders got into it to make video games.

Guess what? 99.9% of us DON'T make video games. We make boring-ass business shit.

As it turns out, the coders who "got lucky" and were hired by actual game design studios (Like EA) are treated like slaves. Saying you want to work to be happy is just an invitation to be abused.

If your true passion is not translatable to a marketable skill, it's a hobby. If you're into art, get a job that has at least some creative outlet, so as to not drive you completely insane. Do your true hobby on your own time.
 
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halik

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Train said:
I'm a coder, I got into coding because I wanted to make video games. 99% of coders got into it to make video games.

Guess what? 99.9% of us DON'T make video games. We make boring-ass business shit.

As it turns out, the coders who "got lucky" and were hired by actual game design studios (Like EA) are treated like slaves. Saying you want to work to be happy is just an invitation to be abused.

If your true passion is not translatable to a marketable skill, it's a hobby. If you're into art, get a job that has at least some creative outlet, so as to not drive you completely insane. Do your true hobby on your own time.
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