8 Things Every Geek’s Office Must Have
I’m currently renovating an upstairs bedroom to become my new office. My current office (minus my new puters) is a sad, dark and scary place.
The new room has the best light in the whole house and is quite charming. I’m going for a calm, cottage, Pottery Barn look, but I’m also wanting to include several nerd items, since I am a nerd after all.
I’ve come across several geeky things I think we should all have for our offices! Let’s take a look:
Typographic Lost Poster
Mattson Creative did an awesome set of Lost posters. I want this one so bad, it combines my love of good typography and a great show in one! ABC is selling some of them, but this one isn’t for sale. 
Font Coasters
Picked up a set of these on Etsy today. Made of marble and type paper with varnish, these were well worth the $20. 
Etsy has a TON of typography art on there, so don’t look if you’re a broke typophile
Type Pillows
OK so you can tell I like type. I didn’t know I’d find so many good examples!
I bought a pair of these, and if you’re lucky you can still find some on the clearance rank in your local Pottery Barn.
Nintendo Wall Graphics
What geek wouldn’t want to turn the place they’re stuck in every day into an 8-bit (or whatever, I’m not THAT much of a geek) office?
ThinkGeek offers old Super Mario, new Super Mario and Donkey Kong to choose from. And no, this isn’t going into my cottage office, but it still rocks.
Computer Bling
I’m now sad that I’m selling my MacBook, because this Yoshi graphic is too cool. You know you wants it….
….I was always sad when my Yoshi died
Find it on Etsy.
Social Media Magnets
Here’s something for all of you social media experts. *Cough Cough* No really, some sweet magnets to hang up all of those papers on your desk.
Find it on Etsy
Embroidered Reddit
Something for you techno blog geeks! I’m not a Reddit fan or user, but this hand embroidered wall thingy looks pretty nerdy to me.
Find it on Etsy
Desktop
No geek would be complete without the proverbial space ship desk from Ikea.
Am I the only one to think all of their desks and chairs are terribly ugly and over-priced?
Your Finds
I’m still looking for nice stuff for the office. Have you found any geekery or prettily designed wonders?
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Don’t forget about the binary clock & whiteboard
I love those type coasters.
Me too. I bought a set, but she has a few of them if you want to order some.
Awesome list – I also loved the type coasters. Another geeky pillow suggestion: http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/look/decorative-pillows-for-graphic-design-nerds-083149 I love these.
I have the PS one
lol I was going to include those as well, but then I remembered that I hate Adobe
Ehhh… yeah I’d only want a PS one
IKEA has some really awesome desks. So are you planning on driving down to Atlanta to pick some up, or are you going to have them shipped to your house? I had a similar one at my old job that was a light pine color.
I’m not going to go with any of the Ikea desks, because I don’t like the modernism of them. I’m going with the Target off-brand of the Pottery Barn desk they have with the drawers on each side.
Then why’d you show an Ikea desk if you don’t like them?
lol if you read my description of it you’ll see I think they’re ugly. But Ikea desks are like the proverbial geek desk, which is why I included it
I´m soooooo getting the Nintendo Wall Graphics for my next office!! That one´s just Awesome!
Great list btw, I really like the typography stuff you´ve found
Thanks, after I wrote this post, I realized that not only was I going to do a cottage-style office, I wanted to incorporate typography as them theme.
The LOST Numbers poster will go on sale on 5/24 at ABC.com!
Thanks for the post, Amber.
Thanks ^_^ I want one for the new office, although I’m not sure if it will match or not
Awesome Mario Bros. wallpaper, I try to stay away from ThinkGeek for the sake of my wallet. I’ve actually been neglecting my old home office since I started coming to a coworking space, but these are some pretty motivating items.
It’s not necessarily geeky but I don’t think any office is complete without a red Swingline stapler.
LOL no, that’s pretty geeky
Hey, great post and the listed items are amazing. You should include a picture of your new office!
My new office only looks like the second photo right now
I’ll do a full post in the next couple months when it’s finished. Still need to save about $500 before we start.
Desks made of construction wood: cheap but pretty (in some weird way) and effective!
+ if you spill something (like coffee, what else!) it only gets prettier (again, in some weird way)!
Keep us posted when the work is done. I think it’s a geek thing, but I love looking at different setups and offices. Don’t we all?