in my last video I mentioned that I use quite a lot of different equipment so I
decided we should compile all the equipment all the
equipment I use into one video I can talk to you about the stuff that I love
that I'm not too fussed about that I recommend or I don't don't and I thought it
would be quite fun to sort of compile it all into one video I'll link everything
that I mentioned down in the description below
let's just get straight into it so the main thing that I use as a
graphic designer and a youtuber is obviously my laptop but I have the
MacBook Pro Retina 2013 edition I bought it years ago it's at least it's at least
6 years old I think when I bought it and it's had a new battery since but I
absolutely love it I don't know what I'd do without it 100% the best purchase I
have made but very very expensive to buy but so worth it it's definitely paid for
itself over the years the only thing I changed with
it when I ordered it was that I got it upgraded to a bigger RAM so it's got
16 gigabytes of RAM the next big thing that I use quite a lot and one of
the first things I purchased more graphic design based was my little Wacom
drawing tablet so this is the plug-in version I think the Bluetooth version
was like £30 more and at the time couldn't afford it so I bought the wired
version it's been no problem for me comes with a little stylus pen thing and
you can use it for drawing and stuff on your laptop I used to use it on
illustrator quite a lot I use my iPad a lot more now but I still love going back
to my roots and doing this I bought this while I was at uni and I bought it with
my student loan there under like a hundred pounds so that's so so
affordable for what they do this exact model does not exist anymore they've
discontinued it but they have brought out a similar one so I will leave that
in the description I feel like I'm slowly going to mess up my entire office
in this video the next thing that is actually a very recent purchase but one
that I probably should have made a while ago is my keyboard so I have the Apple
keyboard so you'll see that the keyboard is sort of underneath the laptop and
then there's a trackpad in front of it I really really like
this setup because I never ever used to work from my desk for the reason that I
couldn't use a trackpad I hate using mice so I've treated myself to
a trackpad and this keyboard so this keyboard is the magic keyboard 2 I feel
like they've discontinued this I'll try and find a link for you but basically
this is the one that doesn't require batteries you can recharge it with
like this little not this one there's a little charging port
and so you just plug it in to the usb on your laptop and you can recharge it and
then in front of that I have this which looks like literally nothing but it is a
trackpad so the little thing that you move your fingers on on a laptop this is
just a bigger version of that very expensive things to buy which actually
pains me a little bit but where I can I have bought refurbished ones so that's a
talked about to save some money if you are in need of an Apple keyboard
which I initially didn't think I was but the main thing for me was the size and
also the shortcuts and initially I had this keyboard which is beautiful I
absolutely love this this was very kindly gifted to me it's from logi or
Logitech is it Logitech I'm not sure I'll link in the description and I used
this for a solid like nine months and loved it the only thing that frustrated
me was the fact that it's not a Apple keyboard it's just a regular Windows one
so it didn't have the command button and some of the keys are like the wrong way
around if you've ever switched between a
Windows and Apple keyboard in the same day you'll understand the struggle and
it also comes with a mouse and it's powered via a little tiny USB thing
which you plug in to your computer before we go to the next thing
actually I also have the Magic Mouse I bought this with a gift voucher that I
got sort of I got like money back when I bought my laptop and I bought myself the
Magic Mouse I have used this probably a handful of times in the whole six years
I've owned my laptop honestly I just don't really like mice like I've just
never really got on with them ok the next big thing that I use is when I can
get it out from underneath all the rubbish I'm
hoarding is my iPad I as you probably know if you've watched my channel for a
while I have the iPad pro it's very smeary and very mucky oh look there you
can see my camera setup but I bought this iPad pro when I was like halfway
through uni I had the idea in my head I used most of my student loan and I
bought myself tn definitely a bit of an impulse purchase but down the line it
worked out so so this is the iPad pro it's a refurbished one so I bought from
Amazon certified refurbished which means it wasn't brand new when I got it but it
works just as new and it also had a one-year warranty it like normal
products do it's 12.9 inch don't know if I said that and it's also 128
gigabytes which I didn't realize until I wrote this down in the video to be
honest if you're gonna buy an iPad I wouldn't worry too much about the
storage on it because literally everything I use is on my cloud storage
this could literally have 16 gig of storage and I feel like that could be
fine I don't have that many apps on it I mainly use procreate and stuff so I'll
also link in the description the case that I have on this iPad it's like a
magnetic case that wakes up the screen is currently turned off that's why it's
not waking up I have this little thing wrapped around it for the apple pencil
and then it also has a screen protector on the iPad itself and obviously I have
the Apple pencil I feel like it'd be rude to have the iPad pro without the
pencil so this is the first generation one it made me want to cry for many days
when I knew that this was gonna cost me a hundred pounds I just couldn't
understand why since buying it I'm the biggest advocate since buying an Apple
pencil and it pains me I have been well and truly taken over with the Apple bug
I'm quite proud of it and I'm quite happy about it I've always wanted to own
Apple products I feel like my 13 year old self would actually cry with a
happiness knowing how many Apple products I've been able to purchase over
the years probably should should have said this at the beginning but this is
not like a humble brag kind of video this is all stuff I've sort of
accumulated accumulated over the years I'm pretty good at saving money and
spending it wisely so yes if you add all this up it's a lot I don't even want to
think about it but I'm not trying to brag it's just stuff I have found useful and
have treated myself to over the years after working bloomin hard so please
don't come at me the next biggest sort of addition to my office space is
actually a second monitor that I'll insert a cut away of this is the BenQ
designer monitor I actually did a full video about this so I'll link that in
the description too but it is beautiful it is an absolute beauty it was very
very kindly gifted to me so thank you so much thank you I honestly really
really appreciate it it's a bit Spenny it's very Spenny actually but if you are
serious about taking design and doing design as a job or a career then highly
highly recommend let's just have a look down my list I definitely recommend getting
a laptop stand if you don't have a desktop computer it's such a good idea
to raise up your laptop from desk level because you are gonna end up hunched
over and it's gonna hurt you know I've learnt the hard way so buying that
laptop stand super affordable for what it is it twists and it's really really sturdy
there's no chance my laptops gonna fall off it 10 out of 10 recommend
so I actually have two identical hard drives because I like them that much I
had to find another one so this is a Toshiba little tiny portable hard drive
it's one terabyte in memory and I bought this probably right at the beginning of
uni so it's got all my uni work on it it's got all my old photography work on
it it's got all my design work on it all my videos on it for the past four years
and it's still not full so yeah I absolutely love this it doesn't require
any mains power you plug it in via the USB slot and it works perfectly fine
I think in the future I'd probably purchase like a solid-state hard drive
which basically means they're less likely to break but affordability wise
and so far I've had no problem with these touch wood last few techie bits
I guess or like graphic design techy bits anyway are my two little printers
so I have a little label printer so if you don't already know I have an online
store that's always linked in the description so many links in the
description today and I have a little printer that lets me
print out address labels or pretty labels for things prints and just black
and white it's from brother it's called the QL 700 it makes my parcels look way
more professional when they arrive at their new homes and I also have the
Canon mg3250 printer which is a scanner and a printer I have had this
for maybe about eight years but yeah I just use that for like test printing
things and printing out invoices and stuff I don't print my products from
that printer I outsource my like prints and my greeting cards and stuff I don't
print anything on site in my office I have some techy YouTube bits so if
this interests you keep watching so a lot of people always ask me what I film
on I film on a canon g7x mark 2 I have two so I'm filming with one right now and I
have this one this is my old one I think it's about three years old now and I've
bought a new one the one I'm filming on because I thought this one was on its
last legs and I was very scared of it all of a sudden dying and me being lost
so about four months ago I bought you but they're both still going strong and
it's actually worked out really well for when I'm filming like tutorials and
stuff when I'm filming my desk and my face I love them a lot they have like
the screens and when I'm vlogging I can like see what I'm filming and the screen also
tilts so if I'm doing a little mini photo shoot I can see when I've got the
angles and stuff really good focus all that I've never had a problem with them
and I also did a little DIY wind proof thing on the top so if I go
outside in windy weather you can still hear me that's effectively what this is
for in terms of like memory and stuff for my camera I use little Sandisk
memory cards I have a couple here I have a range of different ones I have some of
the like Extreme Pro ones which save videos and photos a lot faster then I
have like the basic ones this is just a 16 gig one which I use rarely because it
is a bit slower but they are more affordable another camera I have is a
GoPro I rarely use this to be honest I bought this for when I went travelling
I'm not gonna get it out of its case it's very well packed but we all know
what a GoPro looks like I bought that GoPro
and I bought a little accessory set the accessories were from Amazon and the
GoPro was own brand from there and yeah the accessories were great love it
a lot I got some good footage when I was on my holidays and I'm excited to
use that again soon the next time I go traveling
although I don't have anything booked to go travelling so maybe you should get on
that next thing is tripods - the big tripod that I'm using
right now I have had for probably about 10 years now it's been very well-loved
it's just a small lightweight it was about 30 maybe 40 pounds and I've loved
it ever since I owned it I also have when I find it I have recently bought
myself one of these tripods it's a Manfrotto one you've probably seen a lot of
youtubers buy these and have these I really like using this for when I'm like
vlogging around the house and in my room because it's sturdy and you can hold it
like as like a single monopod or you can stretch out the legs and it's a tripod
you press this and you can change the angle of the little ball head thing and
you just like screw camera onto the top I really like this but it's Spenny
there'll be definitely cheaper versions out there before I bought myself the
over overpriced Manfrotto tripod I actually used this little tiny thing so
this came free with a video camera we bought when I probably was about 12
and it's just got little bendy legs I suppose it's like a very tiny version
of a gorilla pod and I use this for years as my little tripod when I was
vlogging around the house and a lot of the time I'll still take this out with
me because it's a lot smaller to hold than the Manfrotto one I'll try and find
one similar to this because I love this I am NOT going to go to an event with
this in my pocket no thank you I will still pick this one
up I also I'm like taking everything off my office here I also have this one so
this has a big clip on it and then I have a bendy arm on it and I actually
have some shelves above my desk and I clip this onto my shelves point it
downwards and that's how I film my desk for tutorials
final little tripod thing I didn't realize how many tripods I own until I
wrote this down earlier I bought this from Amazon recently it's a little phone
a tripod so you can put your phone in here and
then it's got a little tripod and then you just screw in a normal tripod you
can film like live videos on Instagram and whatever you want to do with your
phone I film quite a lot of like packing time lapses with my phone when I'm like
packing orders for my shop by the way the phone that I have is the iPhone XR
and I take a lot of my Instagram time lapses and a lot of my Instagram photos
and stuff on this I also do take photos on my g7x now a lot more all right we're
on the final stretch hopefully I'm not boring you guys to death with this video
I have a microphone so I am currently using it I can't show you it right now
but it's the blue Yeti microphone and I bought the prettiest one I could find I
love it a lot you can use it for podcasting it has like a dual mode it's
got loads of different modes you can plug headphones into it and stuff I
literally use it on this basic mode and it's always sounded great for me whilst
I was writing stuff down for this video I was looking around my office and in my
drawers at what i use and i saw this and i saw another youtuber talk about
this I can't remember who it was but basically if you look at the bottom it
has a slot for a big memory card if i put it in the right way like that and
then the one above it is for like a micro memory card and all you do is take
your memory card out your camera plug this into the bottom of your phone and
it'll light up and it will just register it and you can transfer the photos from
your camera to your phone straight away i think thats so handy because although
the g7x has a mode where i can wirelessly send photos to my phone which
by the way is an amazing mode it does run the battery down quite a lot so just
kind of cutting out the middleman and switching the card and put a plug in it
straight into your phone saves battery saves your doing the Bluetooth thing
just a good little good little device another little gadget that I recently
bought is this little USB hub so this is from anchor again from Amazon honestly
prime delivery kills me and this is just because I
needed some more USB slots in my laptop I only have two so with this I can just
plug it in and then I have the four that are in this and then the one spare so I
end up with five I also have to mention this I take this everywhere with me
it's very mucky it's got like deodorant and stuff all over it it is a portable
charger it's from a company called easyacc I initially was gifted one
probably about six years ago that one died very loved to death I used it
literally to death so I bought myself a new one it charges my phone at least
four times you can see there how charged it is it's got two slots so if you want
to help your pal out and charge your pals phone - it does have a torch on it which
I think it's a very weird addition why don't know but it's like it's a bit
hefty like it's not the tiniest portable charger it's pretty much the same size
as my iPhone but four times worth of charge I can happily leave
my house without a phone charger overnight and be safe and know that I'm
not gonna be left stranded oh one thing I forgot is the filming light that I'm
using so I bought this years ago it's from a company called Amaran I
think it's called so it's the Amaran aperture and I used an existing light
stand that I had because it just had the same little like attachment thing and
then I have a like an opaque what's this called transparent brolly I
have an umberella in front of it it sort of diffuses the light and makes it less
harsh I thought I would also link a few little things I like to use so I will
link my desk in the description it's from Ikea it has the adjustable legs on
it which I really like I like having quite high desks but I can't afford one
of those sit stand ones so I went for the middle ground and then sort of kind
of cable management and stuff I found an extension lead that one is actually
pretty cute it's colorful I like it and - you can actually isolate the sockets
on it I have little cable tidy hook things I will I find them here is my box
of gadgets in here I have the command strips that I
use a lot and then I have these little things which have like double-sided
sticky on the back and you can put wires in the gaps and it helps you sort of
organize your cables so like when you unplug your phone it doesn't fall to the
floor you could stick these on your bedside table whatever you want there's
like different ones there's little single ones it came in like a big set a
little double ones and I have these stuck on the backside of my desk again
just to keep my printer wires sort of ready for me to go my charger just so it
doesn't fall down the back of the desk and make things really inconvenient when
I need to like plug stuff in I think that overarching theme of my desk setup
in this video is that I've gone for the most efficient setup I can get without
spending too much money if I can I've always chosen refurbished items or I've
tried a cheaper one to begin with and then realized I want the upgrade but I
think I'm getting there I think the next thing I quite like is a longer desk I
definitely need more space but for now I really enjoy myself and I quite enjoy
working in here I feel productive when I'm in here which
i think is the main thing all right that's it I'm bored my brain hurts I'm
sure yours does too if I have missed anything if you have any questions about
something that I mentioned let me know thanks for watching and I'll see you
soon for another one