Advice needed - Christmas gift ideas (+/- €100) for an industrial designer...

[DriesV]

Hi,

I'm racking my brain to find a great gift for a fellow industrial designer for Christmas.
Looking in the €100 (give or take) price range.

Do you guys have any original ideas?
Books, softwares, accessories, tools...?

Dries

[DriesV]

Speaking of presents...
Here are some great suggestions of my own:

Light for Visual Artists: Understanding & Using Light in Art & Design
By Richard Yot
Fantastic hands-on book on the theory of light and how to apply lighting in (digital) images.

Color: A workshop for artists and designers 2nd edition
By David Hornung
Great book on color theory with lots of practical examples and exercises.

Dries

[Despot]

A blonde with pneumatic breasts...

J

[DriesV]

A blonde with pneumatic breasts...

J

You can get that for €100?!? WHERE?!?



Dries

[edwardo]

Lol, what? I'm intrigued as to what 'pneumatic' thruppnies do?

[DriesV]

I think I'm going with this:
http://www.allegorithmic.com/products/bitmap2material

This tool is crazy.
"Bitmap2Material is an incredibly powerful tool that helps you generate full, seamlessly tiling materials (normal map, height map, specular, etc.) from any bitmap image (usually a photo)."

$150 for a commercial license
$50 for a hobby license (Steam)

Dries