Friends of LiB Christmas Catalogue: Part two

Stocking fillers, arty stuff and printed things

Last week we published the first half of this year’s Christmas Catalogue, our crowdsourced gift guide made up of the best tips and recommendations from the people we’ve spoken to over the year.

Here’s part one and part two of the 2021 version, and the first half of 2022 is here, just in case you missed it:

Friends of LiB Christmas catalogue: Part one

Part One was all food and drink, so today we’re following up with stocking fillers, maps, guides, arty stuff and printed things that aren’t books (we’ve already covered them).

Stocking fillers and weird stuff

We’re going to start off this week with another recommendation via Alistair Hall. One of his tips for a place to go and get inspired was the St Bride Library, just off Fleet Street, and they’ve got a pretty nice online shop if, like Alistair (and us), you’re a bit of a font nerd.

These typeface pen pots are only a tenner each, and we like the Bodoni one especially. And this gorgeous A2 poster was co-designed by Alistair himself.

While we’re talking pen pots (not a sentence we ever …