Having trouble shopping for the caffeine-addicted aesthete in your life? No idea what to get the guy who’s easily offended by kitchen utensils? ?Our locally sourced holiday gift guide—packed with well-designed stuff for types A, B and beyond—is here to help.

MEDIA + COLLAPSIBLES

BBQ by Sagaform
Sagaform’s collapsible charcoal grill is design gold. With its simple modernist profile you’d think that you’re looking at a piece of art, not a micro-sized grill.

Perfect for: backpacking through the Minnesota wilderness or grilling out at Minnehaha Falls.

[$19.99 at Urban Outfitters, 8100 24th Ave S., Bloomington]

Local Music for the Masses
Give away some of the year’s best local releases:  Lucy Michelle and Velvet Lapelle’s old-time-y Special Party Time For Everybody, The Red Pens’ indie throwback Reasons and Toki Wright’s soulful take on hip hop, A Different Mirror.

Perfect for: Your out-of-state pals who think their city’s music scene is better than ours.

[Available at Electric Fetus, 2000 4th Ave. S., Mpls.; 612.870.9300]

Pro-Ject Debut III Turntable
The purtiest budget turntable we’ve ever seen sounds as good as it looks. 

Perfect for: Annoying but loveable vinyl apologists.

[$379 at Needle Doctor, 419 14th Ave. S.E., Mpls.; 612.378.0543]

Beatles Stereo or Mono Box Set
The Beatles produced the greatest collection of recorded music in history, but when it was transferred to CD in 1987, the low end was nowhere to be found and the treble was shrill. Thankfully, that's all been fixed in this year’s re-mastered re-issue of The Fab Five’s entire canon. Stereo sounds logical to our ears, but the 11 records that are included in the mono set are the original mixes, the way George Martin intended them to be heard. 

Perfect for: The Beatles fan in all of us.

[$246.99–$279.99 at Electric Fetus, 2000 4th Ave. S., Mpls.; 612.870.9300]

Collapsible Cheese Grater
Why don’t they just call it a “dish sponge destroyer” or “kitchen drawer space taker-upper”? That’s what a cheese grater really does. This little fella can’t solve the first problem, but that second one: Check!

Perfect for: Cheese-lovers in studio apartments.

[$20 at the Weisman Art Museum Store; 333 E. River Pkwy., Mpls.; 612.625.9495]

Howard Miller Clam Shell Alarm Clock
With a spring-loaded hinge that opens to reveal nothing but the time (that’s refreshing isn’t it?), this tiny, Clam Shell Alarm Clock is old-fashioned design at its finest.
Perfect for: the anti-Ikea crowd.

[$30 at Design Within Reach, 2939 Hennepin Ave., Mpls.; 612.827.0990]

Phaidon’s Atlas of 21st-Century Architecture
The 21st century isn’t even 10 percent over and already there have been enough tremendous strides in architecture to fill a book that itself weighs about as much as a small building. As with any Phaidon publication, it’s full of drool-worthy photography.

Perfect for: Anyone who loves, or likes, or just lives in, buildings.

[$160 at the Weisman Art Museum Store; 333 E. River Pkwy., Mpls.; 612.625.9495]