Geek Gifts
Gifts for nerds, coders, gamers and scientists, picked from the designs our customers actually buy. Every one is a joke the right person gets in a second and everyone else asks about.
Buying for a geek is harder than it looks. They already own the gadget, they've read the book, and they have strong opinions about the keyboard. What they rarely buy for themselves is something that says out loud what they love, and says it with a joke only their people get.
That's what we make. Below are our best gifts for geeks, sorted by who you're buying for, with a tee and a sweatshirt option in every group. Every pick is a proven seller. Not sure which group they're in? The sarcasm one has never let anyone down.
For programmers who think in functions
For the person who fixes everyone's laptop and only asks for coffee in return.
Four million years of progress
The classic march of human evolution, from knuckle-walking ape to upright human, ending exactly where you'd expect: hunched over a desk at a computer. Every developer recognises the posture.
One of our fastest-rising coding designs, and it reads instantly from across a room.
Shop Evolution To Coders
The !false sweatshirt
Three characters, one logic joke: not false, so it's funny because it's true. Coders get it before they finish reading it. On a heavyweight crewneck it covers stand-ups, long builds and cold server rooms through the whole winter.
Shop the !false SweatshirtA QR code nobody should scan
A plain QR code with one instruction underneath: don't scan me. Everybody scans it, and every one of them ends up meeting Rick Astley.
It's a small prank that keeps working at meetups, offices and family dinners, long after the wrapping paper is gone.
Shop Don't Scan Me
For gamers who paused to be here
For the player who treats every chore like a side quest and every birthday like a level up.
Every bad day is XP
A dragon wrapped around the gamer's version of a famous line: what doesn't kill you gives you XP. Tough week, hard boss, it all counts towards the next level.
Motivational, technically, and one of our most popular gamer designs.
Shop Gives You XP
I don't get older, I level up
The birthday gift that reframes the number. A loading bar, nearly full, and one simple rule: age is just XP. Kind for anyone dreading a milestone, smug for everyone else, and it looks sharp in black with the arms crossed.
Shop the Level Up SweatshirtProcrastination, rebranded
I'm not procrastinating, I'm doing side quests. A potion, a sword and a treasure chest back up the claim. It's the most honest description of a weekend ever printed.
Expect it to be worn on exactly the days the to-do list is longest.
Shop Side Quests
For the geek who doesn't wear jokes
Not every scientist wants a pun on their chest. Our Signature Line is the answer: single-line drawings of the people we make shirts for, The Coder, The Stargazer, The Chemist and more, finished with a small GEEK wordmark.
They read as design first and geek second, which makes them the safe gift for someone with a careful wardrobe.
Shop the Signature LineFor scientists with a periodic sense of humour
For the lab coat crowd, the science teacher and anyone who still knows their noble gases.
Four letters, one whole genome
A, T, G and C, with a double helix standing in for the middle. It's the cleanest design in the science range and the one biologists keep coming back for.
Simple enough for a lab Friday, smart enough for a conference.
Shop ATGC DNA
I only use sarcasm periodically
Our best-selling design, spelled out in element tiles: S, Ar, Ca, Sm. It's a chemistry joke that doubles as a personality warning, and the first thing we'd hand anyone looking for a science gift.
Shop the Sarcasm SweatshirtThe element of surprise
A periodic table tile for an element that doesn't exist, W and Tf, labelled the element of surprise. Chemists laugh, then check the table. Everyone else just reads the letters.
The one to buy for the friend who swears they've seen it all.
Shop Element of Surprise
For math lovers, teachers and statisticians
For the person who splits the restaurant bill to the cent and is, annoyingly, always right.
A dinosaur, normally distributed
A bell curve with a long neck and a tail. It's the joke you see once and can't unsee, drawn as one clean line, and it has quietly been a favourite of ours for years.
Statisticians buy it for themselves. Everyone else buys it for a statistician.
Shop Normal Distribusaurus
Avoid negativity
f(x) = |x|. The absolute value function turns every negative into a positive, which is also a decent philosophy for life. A lovely gift for a math teacher, and for anyone who's had a bit of a year.
Shop Avoid NegativitySomething strange in the data
A normal distribution with a ghost hiding inside it: the paranormal distribution. Students quote it, teachers wear it to exams, and data people consider it a work uniform.
A strong pick for anyone whose job title includes the word analyst.
Shop Paranormal Distribution
Four more geek gifts that always sell
Four mugs for the desk
Free shipping on any 3 items
Mix tees and sweatshirts across any designs. The discount applies automatically at checkout, so a three-person gift list ships for free.
Not sure of their size?
Everything is unisex. Our size charts list chest and length for every size, so you can measure a shirt they already own and compare.