77 DESIGN GIFTS UNDER $77

Animal Scale

What animal do you weigh? Card copy idea: "I'm a swan. You're a cow. I still love you."

plastic bag alternative

Groceries taste just as good, if not more consciously delicious, when you've toted them home in plastic bag alternatives like Baggus.

    

Pocket screwdriver

We've seen a few of these over the years, but this pocket screwdriver is particularly ingenious, with the edge of the washer graduating in thickness to accommodate any (common) slot. Pack o' 12 too!

    

Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex and Cowboy Bebop Combo

The best two anime series ever, both will convert non-fans of the genre. Fresh takes on the urban future, seemingly rendered by amazingly imaginative industrial designers, with engaging plots you can actually follow.

Okala Design Guide

Everyone's going green. Give your design and eco-minded friends and loved ones the gift of guidance.

Mix Tape USB

Tired of spending time putting together the perfect mix, only to present it as a nasty CD-R with your bad Sharpie handwriting? Try this sizzle with your steak.

H2-UH-OH* or Why You Should Buy Stainless Steel Water Bottles Today

Scientific studies have been piling up since '98 saying that bisphenol A (BPA) leaches out of polycarbonate water bottles—those popular Nalgene bottles—and that it can lead to "chromosomal aberrations", IN YOU, and, no, they're NOT the super spidey-strength kind. So the time is NOW to switch to a safer alternative... (these are all aluminum free too, if that matters) *We stole this title from these fine peeps More recent studies are cited here.
Sigg Oval Bottles 0.6L $19.99 Stainless Steel replica of 1941 Swiss Army Canteen—has FDA approved epoxy phenol resin coating to cut down on any possible mineral leaching
Guyot Shorty 24oz $14.95 uncoated stainless steel—wide mouthed so it will still fit your nalgene accessories—water filter, etc.
Klean Kanteen 27oz $19.95 w/stainless steel loop cap—uncoated food-grade stainless w/stainless cap even!

Design Wit and the Creative Act poster in"artist-grade" metal-capped telescopic tube

Limited Edition - Only 50 left!
If you missed the event, you can still take home a part of it by snagging one of these limited edition posters. Hurry though.

Super slick yo-yo

Possibly more yo-yo than a lay-person needs, but that lead-sled hubcap look is too sweet to pass up. Made from Aircraft grade 6061-T6 aluminum alloy with ultra precision high speed chrome bearing!

Thank you. I Love you.

Want some greetings with seasoning?Thank you I love you will turn your photos and movies into quirky, delightful, charming web movies to send to the ones you love. They also do cards. And games. And basically anything you need. Wanna see samples? Check out Jumping, Angela Eats, or the timely holiday greeting.

Candle Carver

Turn any apple into a votive holder with this candle carver from Lillian Vernon. Brilliant.

Lucha Karate Toy, Peru

Unbelievable value in the Aesthetic and Pop-Tchotchke departments.

Pentagram's 2008 Classic Typographic Calendar

Kit Hinrichs has designed this year's calendar using twelve typefaces designed by typographer Matthew Carter. Purchase it here

Itsy-Bitsy Bracelet

Packaged to look like it's floating, this block of magnets turns itself into a bracelet through some clever meandering. Check this out from the catalogue: "Each magnetic link has enough strength to actually move around on the other side of your hand while holding the end of the remainder of the bracelet beneath." Got no idea what that means, exactly, but it's got "bar trick" written all over it.

Pinstriping Starter Kit Package

Squirrel Hair SWORD Striper; size 1 and size 0   +   1 Shot 5 COLOR STARTER KIT   +   Laying Down the Line; Pinstriping Masters Book

Here are some videos to help learn ya: Rat Fink Party-Pinstriping with Shane Syx and Pinstriping a Bike

Carrie Bicycle Basket

Referencing the Swedish crochet tablecloths on which her grandmother used to serve afternoon tea, designer Marie-Louise Gustafsson offers these plypro baskets for strolling or riding. (Bicycle basket holder is included.)

Good Magazine Subscription

GOOD for you, GOOD for your charity of choice and it's even GOOD for someone you love.

S-XL Cake Pan

"A little smaller...no, smaller...well, not that small!" Let people pick their perfect size slice (and height!) with Konstantin Slawinski's exquisitely inequitable cake pan.

U Bend Bookshelf

The good folks at UpToYouToronto have dropped the price of Max Lamb's ingenious shelf to $77 especially for this list, so go get it! (Click on"Home Accessories", then scroll down to"U Bend Shelf".)

ForestEthics Donation

ForestEthics is the organization behind Victoria's Dirty Secret and countless other campaigns aimed at getting corporations—from Limited Brands to Staples and Office Depot—to change their paper-buying practices. So far, their work has stopped logging in over seven million acres of old growth forests (one million acres in Chile, and six million acres in British Columbia), so if you're into planting trees this year, how's about you consider saving a few while you're at it?

Flensted Mobile: Five Viking Ships

All together now: "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ah!"    "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ah!"    "We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow" ... Awesome, totally mandatory to paint your wall blue, for full effect. Made of Teak wood

Knit Night Cupcakes

The crafty and sweet-toothed ones on your list won't stop ooh-ing and ahh-ing for hours at your kick-ass DIY skills, that is, until they get kinda hungry. Chomp!

Ultra TV-B-Gone

You could buy one of these, or just build it. And since turning off the TV in any decent restaurant would constitute a nice gift to all its patrons, maybe just you keep this item for yourself.

Momspit

For all those germy Mama's boys out there. You know who you are.

Rock Tumbler

You need patience, and you need the stones of course, but of all the old-skool gifts you could give this holiday season, it's tough to imagine one more classic than this.

Universal Guggenheim Snowdome

A throw-in from way back in 2001. Allan Chochinov and Henry Yoo's conceptual object had the following pitch: "The Universal Guggenheim SnowDome is a tabletop souvenir; an engaging amusement that invites users to get involved with architecture and explore dynamic relationships between form and space. The SnowDome's "shake-'n'-make" simplicity transforms Frank Gehry's sensual formal vocabulary into a truly vernacular and democratic architecture--an architecture of the people, by the people. Or, it's just a fun thing to buy at the museum gift shop."

Well, nothing ever came of it of course, but now the concept might just have some new resonance, given the NewMu just a few blocks over from Core77 HQ?