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Choose Your Starter, Iowa Edition!The Downtown Farmers’ Market is open 7 AM - 12 PM, rain or shine, and today’s big deci...
05/30/2026

Choose Your Starter, Iowa Edition!

The Downtown Farmers’ Market is open 7 AM - 12 PM, rain or shine, and today’s big decision isn’t what to have for breakfast.

It’s choosing your starter.

🌱 Grass Type - The green Iowa topography map. Super effective against boring walls.

🔥 Fire Type - The red Iowa topography map. Known for high attack stats and dramatic entrances.

💧 Water Type - The blue Iowa topography map. Calm, collected, and probably knows Surf (Ballroom).

Each one is handcrafted, layered, and ready to begin its journey with a new Trainer.

⚠️ Professor Foundry’s Warning: If you sleep through your alarm and all three starters have already been claimed, don’t worry. We still have an Electric Type available.

It’s a field mouse that has corn tapped to it.

🌽⚡

(We’re pretty sure that’s how that trade marked game the kids love works in Iowa.)

Come find us at the Downtown Farmers’ Market from 7 AM to Noon, rain or shine. Whether you’re collecting state parks, county fairs, lakes, stadiums, or your favorite corner of Iowa, we’ve got a map waiting for its next Trainer.

Be Found at DSM Foundry.

05/25/2026

Today, we pause.

Not for the sales. Not for the long weekend. Not for the cookouts or the lake trips.

We pause for those who never made it home.

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row…”

* John McCrae

Memorial Day is stitched into quiet moments. Folded flags. Empty chairs. Stories told at kitchen tables. Names engraved in stone and carried in memory. Loved ones that are now memories.

At DSM Foundry, we spend our days creating pieces meant to preserve places, moments, and memories. Today reminds us there are some memories far bigger than ourselves. Sacrifices that shaped the freedoms we often move through without thinking twice.

“We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved…”

To those who served and gave everything, thank you feels impossibly small, but we say it anyway.

May we remember well. May we live worthy of the torch passed forward.

Be Found. Remember Well.

BLOCKADE GATE UPDATE After carefully reviewing our concerns, the DMPD took swift and decisive action by moving the barri...
05/23/2026

BLOCKADE GATE UPDATE

After carefully reviewing our concerns, the DMPD took swift and decisive action by moving the barricades approximately 14 inches. Truly transformational infrastructure work happening before our eyes.

They even left the moving pole behind, which feels less like “helpful oversight” and more like a highly sophisticated sting operation. We’ve seen enough cop shows to know better than to touch it.

In unrelated news, access to DSM Foundry now includes a complimentary obstacle course and light urban navigation challenge. Be Found at DSM Foundry, if you can make it through Blockade Gate™.

Also, huge shout out to our neighbors at Chubby.pug.cheese for being absolute legends and letting customers walk through their tent so people can still get to us without needing mountaineering gear and a city permit. Support good neighbors, buy dog treats, and tell them DSM Foundry sent you.

Downtown Des Moines Farmers Market update:Our products got so hot this morning that DMPD apparently installed anti-theft...
05/23/2026

Downtown Des Moines Farmers Market update:

Our products got so hot this morning that DMPD apparently installed anti-theft barricades directly in front of our booth. 🚔🔥

We’re choosing to interpret this as a compliment.

Come browse handcrafted travel maps, national park passports, stadium trackers, bathymetric lake maps, colorful topography art, and our dangerously adorable coloring boards before the city decides we need a full perimeter.

Find DSM Foundry downtown today. If you see the yellow barricade, you’re close.

At the ! You know what it is and what we do, how about something completely different?A dear friend of Foundry released ...
05/16/2026

At the ! You know what it is and what we do, how about something completely different?

A dear friend of Foundry released a podcast set in future Des Moines! "235 Bloom" A hopeful take on the future told through TTRPGs. It's petty neat!

https://shorturl.at/hCI54

Des Moines farmer's market week 2! Twice the fun half the calories! (Not really though, there's a lot of calories down h...
05/09/2026

Des Moines farmer's market week 2! Twice the fun half the calories! (Not really though, there's a lot of calories down here.)

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."...
05/02/2026

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts." -Mark Twain

First Downtown Farmers Market!
Start a journey with one of our maps, color in a wood puzzle, or appease your kids with a 3D printed toy! Just make sure to buy local!

2 events this weekend! Double the Foundry, Double the fun! It's First Friday at Mainframe from 5-8p, then the first Down...
05/01/2026

2 events this weekend! Double the Foundry, Double the fun! It's First Friday at Mainframe from 5-8p, then the first Downtown Des Moines Farmers Market for 2026! Come see us!

Mainframe Studios
Des Moines' Downtown Farmers' Market

We have a space at in Clive! J-11 down on Juniper row. There's a selection of travel passport maps, leather maps, and f...
03/12/2026

We have a space at in Clive! J-11 down on Juniper row. There's a selection of travel passport maps, leather maps, and for the season our wood Easter tokens! DSM Foundry goods available for sale 7 days a week! Great gifts for people who are usually hard to shop for!

10a-8p Mon-Sat
11a-6p Sunday

I'm going to be at the Save Zella fundraiser next Saturday the 28th, 6p-11p at the Horizon Events Center! The event is t...
02/22/2026

I'm going to be at the Save Zella fundraiser next Saturday the 28th, 6p-11p at the Horizon Events Center! The event is to help defray medical costs for their sweet pup. I'll have some new coloring book puzzles for sale (peep the pic for a sneak peak) as well as all your favorite Foundry maps, earrings, et al!

Come catch Foundry at an unusually early event for us! Check link below for event details!

https://facebook.com/events/s/save-zella-fundraiser/1423675392437648/

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216 E Court Avenue
Des Moines, IA
50309

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