1. Kodak Easyshare Digital Frame
Show the world your designs and have them on a rotating
slideshow. You can put them in your office so that visitors are forced to look
at your work. You can put them in your waiting room or even in your Windows at
home if you like. They can continuously show people how good your graphic
design work is.
2. Logitech K810 Illuminated Keyboard
This is a Windows 8 keyboard that uses Bluetooth instead of
wires and can be adapted to work on a lot of mobile devices. It has illuminated
keys which are very handy if you are the type of designer that likes to work in
the dark. Most of the functions you need are done with a stylus or mouse, but
pressing keys in the dark is harder without illumination.
3. mStand For MacBook
If you use a laptop in order to do your designing, then this
is going to help you a lot because it can put your laptop screen into positions
that usually only suit a PC monitor. It can hold a laptop steady in an elevated
position so you may keep it as far away from you as needed, and avoids clutter
if you are not typing.
4. Optimus Popularis Keyboard
This is a piece of kit that acts as a further keyboard. It
has jelly-like crystal keys that has symbols etc. But, its main function for a
graphic designer is that the keys may be macro’ed to functions on their
software. The extra keyboard may provide quicker functions than if you macro’ed
your keyboard keys as you often have to macro to key combinations instead of
just one key.
5. Cube Laser Virtual Keyboard
This is the sort of gadget you can use when you are on a
train or when you are somewhere where pulling out a keyboard is going to make
your life difficult or where it is just not a social norm to do so. It allows
you to type by simply pressing on a flat surface as it projects the keys for
you.
6. Inkscape
This is a free program that you can use for graphic design.
It is very similar to the paid software called Adobe Illustrator, but it is a
free program. It is well known enough to have tutorials on its use littered
around the Internet, and it is still being updated now and again so it is not
as if the software is sat on a server getting old and rotting.
7. Flash Drive Combination Lock
This is a fun little gadget that a graphic designer can use
to keep his or her files safe on a flash drive. It is not actually as secure as
it looks because if you crack the case of the flash drive then you can remove
the lock. But, at least this way the graphic designer will know that his or her
files have been looked at or compromised.
8. Mimi Mini USB Monitor
This is a great device that looks like a tablet device. It
is placed on a stand next to your PC monitor or laptop screen and is connected
to your desktop computer with a USB wire connection. It allows you to have a
whole other screen that you can reference whilst working. Put your plans for
your design on there and you can look at them whilst keeping your desktop
screen all to yourself.
9. Bamboo Pad
The device does its job and does it well, but it really
depends on the graphic designer’s style as to whether he or she uses this. It
is a pad you lay on the desk and draw on with the stylus in order to control
objects on the screen. If the designer is using a drag-and-drop system then
this sort of thing may come in very handy.
2. Apple iPad
Apple has made lots of effort to try and attract business
users as well as private users. This is why the iPad may be of use to a graphic
designer. The way of the wind says that most graphic designers are going to
have some excuse for having a tablet, even if it is just to show off their portfolio,
so why not consider the iPad.
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