A new Knight Grant! New Toner! New Infrastructure!

| 08.25.14

In 2010, Stamen was awarded a Knight News Grant to build tools that help people tell better stories about cities. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve been awarded another grant from Knight to extend and support this project, as follows: Terrain layers, at all zoom levels, outside the US Transfer the hosting and processing to...

Farewell, Zach Watson

| 08.16.14

Two weeks ago, we were horrified to learn that our friend and Stamen alum Zach Watson was fighting for his life after having been the victim of a car crash that injured six people in the Tenderloin. He’s been in critical condition since then. I’m so very sorry to have to tell you that Zach...

Data Miner, Water Detective

| 08.05.14

This summer, I’m working on a Creative Code Fellowship with Stamen Design, Gray Area and Autodesk. The project is called Water Works, which will map and data-visualize the San Francisco water infrastructure using 3D-printing and the web. Finding water data is harder than I thought. Like detective Gittes in the movie Chinatown, I’m poking my...