Personalized Leather Graduation Gifts for New Professionals

A Black woman wearing a denim shirt is carrying a bicycle down a set of stairs in an urban environment. The bicycle has a green paint job and honey leather wrapped handlebars.

Original, unique designs to help with lifting and carrying your bicycle

Lifetime leather bar wraps in five styles for every type of handlebar and bicycle

A woman bicycling on a bright summer day over a green lawn wearing suede fringe cowgirl boots and with a 6-pack of Anchor Steam beer connected to the top tube of her bicycle with a honey leather 6-pack frame cinch

Best-selling "commuter essentials" for making the daily commute easier

A dark brown leather round, barrel-shaped saddle bag with cedar wood sides mounted to the back of a brown leather Brooks saddle on a cream-and-brown painted bicycle

Stunning handcrafted bicycle bags carry the essentials and turn heads!

Two people playing a game of travel cribbage on a wooden picnic table with a small leather and birch cribbage board

Our original best-selling Travel Cribbage Boards have fans worldwide

Two sets of travel dice on a dark brown leather table surface. Both sets show six dice coming out of a square brass tube. The dice are 7mm, smaller than standard. One has white dice and the other has black dice.

Convenient dice games on-the-go: farkle and yacht (yatzy)

Two people playing dominoes using small, domino-sized playing cards on a walnut wood table with snacks and drinks. The domino cards are double 12 with different colors for each number and hand-drawn.

Perfect for travel: hand-drawn domino playing cards (2 sizes!)

Close-up of a folding leather travel backgammon board mid-play on a weathered wood surface. A hand is reaching in and moving four game pieces (which are brass nails) between triangles, which are laser-engraved in the honey dyed leather. Accessories are visible, dice and doubling cube and peg storage

Travel Backgammon for travelers, made from natural materials

A variety of handcrafted leather and wood handles on a sample board as seen from above and an angle

All handcrafted handles in 8 styles, 4 leather colors, & 3 metal finishes

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Walnut Studiolo Drawer Pulls Oswego Leather Wrap

Wrap handles, bannisters and more in quality veg-tan leather

Two cabinet doors swinging open towards each other with matching leather Lovejoy loop handles. The leather touches so the cabinets don't crash into each other, a solution for problem corners in kitchen design planning

Flexible but sturdy, creative solutions to tricky problem corners

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We wrote a free educational series about our favorite material, from how it's made to spotting vintage quality

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In our humble opinion, speaking as graduates ourselves, the best graduation gifts help grads land a job!

This round-up of gifts is great for new professionals, job seekers, and interviews, and will help your student feel grown up and ready for the real world. They may even catch the eye of the interviewer!

A young man leaving a newly-built house holding a leather document case

This customer and recent architecture graduate sent us this photo from the job site carrying his honey leather blueprint tube.

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Personalized Gifts for Architecture, Designers, Fine Arts, and Engineering Grads

These two leather tube cases hold large format documents. They're perfect for carrying into interviews and meetings for presentation and style and sure to catch the interviewer's eye! They can both be monogrammed with initials or a short message.

The Blueprint Tube fits any large-format document up to 32" long on one side, and unlimited on the other side (because it rolls up). Standard paper sizes up to A1.
The "Whiskey/Wine Case" fits documents up to 13" long on one side, including 11"x17" ledger, up to A3.

Monogrammed Gifts for the Job Search

The Business Card Case makes a perfect grad gift for any student. Beautiful and memorable, it makes a great conversation piece at networking events! Personalize it with a monogram.

Here's a great idea to take the gift a step further: include a gift certificate for a business card printing service to help the grad print their own business cards and calling cards.

Gifts for a Move to the City: Bicycle Commuter Accessories

Getting around a city by bike is the easiest transportation method. These commuter accessories will professionalize their ride and equip them for daily use.

If their boss is a cyclist too, a beautiful bike is a great way to connect!