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Keywords – Arts, Collaborative, Progressive, High-tech, Educated, Publishing

Population: 3,175,041
Settled: 1867
Nicknames: City of Lakes, Mini-Apple, Mill City, Twin Cities
Motto: En Avant

Tourism / Place branding / Historic Landmarks

• Walker Art Center

New Arch / Urban developments

• Guthrie Theater / Jean Nouvel
• Minnesota Shubert Performing Arts and Education Center
• Minneapolis Institute of the Arts / Michael Graves
• Walker Art Center / Herzog & De Meuron
• Weisman Art Museum / Frank Gehry

Design businesses

• Aesthetic Apparatus
• Keith Moore of pilotdesign
• Coen Landscape Architecture

Creative initiatives

• Minneapolis Center for Book Arts
• Book Art Biennale 2009

Local businesses

• Room and Board (furniture)
• Target
• Milkweed Editions

Institutions / Organizations

• Mill City Museum
• Walker Art Center*
• Design Fellow Program
• AIGA Minneapolis

Art and Design Schools

• Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• Design Institute of the University of Minnesota

Articles / Blogs / Other

• Flour Power
• The Balto
• Creating a new craft culture – Conference