As designers, we can’t help but be particular about the gifts we give and receive. We’ve put together a list of beautiful and useful gifts at varying price ranges to help you satisfy everyone on your holiday shopping list this year, including yourself.
Wishing you and yours a happy, safe holiday season filled with love, gratitude, and connection.
Your pals,
Aarron and Eli
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Eli: I&#39;m kind of a coffee heathen, and tend to like really dark roast coffees, old school…and so I was a little skeptical because a lot of Methodical’s coffees tend to be a little lighter or medium roast. But this one that Aarron picked out is just great and I drink it all the time. 
Design Better coffee, $22
Eli: You&#39;ve probably heard us talk about American Giant. They&#39;re a clothing company based here in the US. They&#39;re all manufactured here in the States. We actually had their CEO Bayard Winthrop on an episode that got a really good reception from folks.
Aarron: It was one of our more popular episodes this year. Bayard&#39;s an amazing person. And the company is just so cool.
Eli: And their mission is great about revitalizing manufacturing here in the U. S., and they make great clothing.
American Giant hoodie (m) (w), $138 but get 20% off with code DESIGNBETTER
Eli: Heath Ceramics is another brand that we&#39;re really close to. A few years back we had on Robin Petravic who&#39;s the current co-owner of Heath ceramics. Their brand is rooted in the Bay Area, another local manufacturer, and they just make these beautiful, very handmade feeling dinnerware, tableware, vases...they&#39;re beautiful.
Heath Ceramics: Small Modern Cup $24 dbtr.co/heathceramics get 15% off between now and December 31st with code DBholiday23
Aarron: We’ve been talking with our friends over at Vestaboard, and in this list of awesome gifts, this is like right there at the top. If you&#39;re familiar with a split flap display: when you go to an airport, a train station, and you see those [mechanical] displays that show what time your departures and arrivals are, that’s a split flap display.
This is a great office thing as well, and could be a holiday gift to the office. So what&#39;s cool about VestaBoard is there&#39;s a mobile app that&#39;s associated with it. You can connect it to different data sources, like amazing quotes, latest scores in a game that you&#39;re watching.
It&#39;s wonderful for families to be able to communicate with each other. If you&#39;re not at home and you&#39;ve got a kid that&#39;s just gotten home, you can send them a quick message on this. There&#39;s so many different creative and cool things you can do.
Vestaboard $3,295
Eli: Some people can&#39;t listen to any kind of music while they&#39;re writing or focusing on a task but, brain.fm has actually done the scientific

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