Since 2001, Stamen has developed a reputation for beautiful and technologically sophisticated projects in a diverse range of commercial and cultural settings. We work and play with a surprising and growing range of collaborators: news media, financial institutions, artists and architects, car manufacturers, design agencies, museums, technology firms, political action committes, and universities.
Find out more about who we are, or view our client work and research projects. A selection of essays and works-in-progress may be found at our studio blog.
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An interactive hurricane tracker, built with MSNBC's Paige West to track major storms. Built using Modest Maps and Microsoft's excellent Virtual Earth tiles, the project allows for interactive investigation of both live and historical hurricane paths, wind speeds, and forecasted routes.
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Stamen's new work with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is live. Faced with the challenge of providing a way to navigate through upwards of 3,500 works in the museum's collection, we thought: why not show them all at once? and designed a structure allowing for visual navigation and exploration of these artworks.
View Project.
The project was built using our Modest Maps library, an open-source toolkit allowing designers & developers to quickly build and design zoom-and-pan maps. In this case, instead of navigating in and out of and around a geographic map, you move through a landscape made of artworks, organized by when they were purchased by the Museum.
The interface is searchable as well, and each portion is linkable - so sending someone directly to Gordon Matta-Clark's Splitting or Olafur Eliasson's Multiple Grotto is as easy as pie.
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Interactive maps of travel time and housing prices in London
MySociety, an NGO which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives, came to Stamen with a remit to explore two fascinating datasets: median prices of homes throughout London, and the time it takes to travel from one place to another throughout the city.
Travel times from the Department of Transport
Both of these datasets are fairly well understood, if not widely available for public consumption in graphic format. We thought that we could add the most value to people's experience of this material if we did two things: provided an exploratory (as opposed to search-based) way to navigate, and also combined the information into a set of interactive pieces that let you explore the various parameters on your own.
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Oakland Crimespotting is an interactive map of crimes in Oakland, and a tool for understanding crime in cities.
If you hear sirens in your neighborhood, you should know why. Crimespotting makes this possible with interactive maps, e-mail updates, and RSS feeds of crimes in areas that you care about.
Accessing individual incidents
A week's worth of crime
We believe that civic data should be exposed to the public in a more open way. With these maps, Stamen is hoping to inspire local governments to use this data visualization model for the public release of many different kinds of data: tree plantings, new schools, applications for liquor licenses, and any other information that matters to people who live in neighborhoods. We welcome inquiries from municipalities and other interested parties who seek to provide their data to the public in a more transparent and sharable manner.
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Trulia, a real estate search, aggregation, and information site asked Stamen to help demonstrate the extent of their huge catalog of U.S. residential properties. Trulia Hindsight is an animated view onto their database, with an eye towards exposing patterns of expansion and development through home construction dates.
Housing built on an artificial lake: Discovery Bay
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Digg.com is one of the most-visited sites on the internet. The site's ever-changing content, all submitted by members, provides a vivid window into what's interesting online, right now.
Since early 2006, Stamen has been collaborating with Digg on numerous ongoing visualization projects. Our work together focuses on research into the astonishingly rich and diverse ecosystem of the Digg user community.
Some of this work is released to the public in the form of live data-driven interactive projects at labs.digg.com. We are also in continuous exploration mode with Digg's data, generating internal research artifacts which provide new and useful views of the Digg community's behavior (see "Research," below). Our goal is to continually extend the possibilities of live data visualization, while addressing Digg's real business needs.
Digg Labs:
Digg moves very quickly, and has a great many stories submitted every day, so good material can sometimes fly by before you even know it. Stamen's live interactive visualizations for Digg look beneath the surface of this active community's activities, and allow for a broader (and deeper) view of the site.
Digg Swarm
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"Working with the Stamen guys was like having our own site design SWAT team. They came into a tough, time-critical situation with feet on the ground and were able to parse through the desires of multiple stakeholders and iterative feedback to help us build an incredibly beautiful site. They surpassed all expectations in terms of professionalism, technical skill, and lovely, functional design chops. We look forward to
working with them again soon!"
—Kakul Srivastava, Senior Product Manager, Yahoo!
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Invisible Dynamics: A living and always-changing map of city life.
“Who knew the pleasures of 21st-century techno-surveillance could be so purely, so innocently aesthetic?”
—Julian Dibbell, Village Voice
“This is stunning work.”
—David Pescovitz, boingboing.net
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