To purchase any of the available DI Knowledge Maps, books, DVDs or other items, mail a check or money order to:

Design Institute, attn: Sales

Northrop Memorial Auditorium, Room 308

84 Church Street S.E.

Minneapolis, MN 55455

BOOKS:

ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING, on the mapping of network and cartographic space, co-edited by Janet Abrams and Peter Hall, March 2006. Published by the Design Institute; distributed by University of Minnesota Press.
Currently Out of Stock, to be reprinted in 2008

Metro Letters: A Typeface for the Twin Cities, 160-page book documenting the DI's Typeface Twin Cities project, published July 2003, distributed by University of Minnesota Press.
BUY IT!

KNOWLEDGE MAPS:

Digifab: Knowledge Map of Digifab Methods and Materials

A 36-page guide to digital fabrication processes and facilities at the University of Minnesota and around the Twin Cities, including a Knowledge Map of Digifab Methods and Materials, and digifab equipment locations on the UM Twin Cities campus, presented on fold-out cover. (click for photos)

$10.00 + $2.00 P/H

Twin Cities Knowledge Maps published September 2003

A boxed set of nine double-sided large format posters + a mini audio CD that offer new perspectives on the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St Paul.

$50.00 + $4.00 P/H

Twin Cities Knowledge Maps, in a tube!  The same nine-map set as above, but flat rather than folded. Perfect for hanging or framing.

$50.00 + $4.00 P/H—mailed in tube. NOTE: Audio CD for Sound Map cannot be included in this format.  

Twin Cities Knowledge Maps, individuals: Choose from the list of maps below to get the ones you really want. Mailed in a tube so they won’t have creases. Multiples will be mailed together so you only pay postage once.

$8.00 each + $4.00 P/H—mailed in tube. NOTE: Audio CD for Sound Map cannot be included in this format. 

• 50 Sound Stories & 466 Decibel Readings: A Sound Map
• Growing Together: Twin Cities Community in Gardens
• The Moveable Feast: A Twin Cities Dining Map
• Divining the Twin Cities: Physical Journeys, Spiritual Places
• Ethni-Cities: A cultural Calendar of Immigrant Community Festivals
• Write Your Own City: A Palimpsest of Personal Geographies
• Twin Cities Odorama: A Smell Map of Minneodorous and Scent Paul
• At Home in the Heartland: What Makes the Twin Cities “Home”
• MSP Grain: An Urban-Agrarian-Urban Digest

Seeing Green, on Sustainable Design at the U of Minnesota, March 2003; comes with its own set of 'red-eye' goggles.

$8.00 + $4.00 P/H—mailed in tube

Voting By Design, a Communications Map of the American Voter's Experience, April 2003; as featured in I.D. Magazine, June 2003.

$8.00 + $4.00 P/H—mailed in tube

Here By Design II, a Knowledge Map of Twin Cities Design
produced in conjunction with the Goldstein Museum's exhibit, Feb-Apr 2003

$8.00 + $4.00 P/H—mailed in tube

Midtown Crossings Knowledge Map, October 2001
produced in conjunction with the DI's Midtown Crossings Workshop

$8.00 + $4.00 P/H—mailed in tube

DVDs & VIDEOS:

Michael Graves on Design, an hour-long DVD of the renowned architect's conversation with DI Director Janet Abrams at Pantages Theatre, Minneapolis, in May 2004;first broadcast on Twin Cities Public Television in July 2004.

Currently Out of Stock

Design Camp 2002, a 16 minute video directed by Jane Nisselson/Virtual Beauty with cinematographer Rachel Strickland, was produced in fall 2002 as a documentation of our first Design Camp for teens; available on VHS only. $15.00 + $4.00 P/H

Design Camp 2003 directed by Kyle Barron-Cohen with cinematographer Joey Reid, available on DVD.

Currently Out of Stock

VROOM: The Future of Car Design and Car Culture a one-hour TV program of the November 2002 symposium, co-produced by the DI and the Weisman Art Museum, originally aired on Twin Cities Public Television.

Currently Out of Stock