Prettymaps on 20×200 — prints!

| 09.21.10

We’ve — finally! — collaborated with the fabulous Jen Bekman’s 20×200 on a print edition of a Stamen project, Prettymaps. 20×200 makes it possible for people to buy art at whatever level they’re comfortable, from $20 to $200, and the project has put art into the hands of lots of people who wouldn’t otherwise afford it, so good on...

Hangin’ With Mr. Bieber: Our Second MTV Video Music Awards

| 09.15.10

Shawn and I are back from an epic five days in Los Angeles, our second run at the MTV Video Music Awards and our fourth live event collaboration with our good friends at MTV. The first time we visualized live Twitter traffic for the VMA’s, we were tightly focused on the pre-show broadcast. This time,...

I like Bing Maps and I cannot lie

| 09.09.10

It’s time to start talking in public about the major revision to Bing Maps that Stamen designed for Microsoft. It’s not every day you get asked to re-imagine the state of online mapping for a company that has the resources to actually take a shot at it, and in looking back over the project archive...