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Stamen alum Sha Hwang and I shared a stage last night at Arkitektura’s Design Assembly in their lovely Soma showroom. Besides the obvious awesomeness of sharing a stage with Sha (whose work at Trulia is up there with the best), it’s always fun to talk to an audience of designers; their focus on how things...

A new installment in our continuing study of Bay Area infrastructure is live, at https://stamen.com/zero1. Some early coverage of the project here and here. We’ve mapped the Bay Area’s crime and taxis before, but in each case a source of data was readily available for the taking. In this case, we decided to try something...

Today we launched “Mapping the World’s Friendships,” a project visualizing the degree of interconnectedness between Facebook’s hundreds of millions of members as part of Facebook’s new Storiesinitiative. Countries are sorted by a combination of how many Facebook friendships there are between countries, and the total number of Facebook friendships there are in that country. Turns...

Since launching maps.stamen.com and making the maps available for purchase in select cities on 20×200we’ve been lucky enough to receive a steady trickle of interest from people who want to print the maps themselves. For those unlucky enough to have missed the watercolor letterpress map that went out withJason Kottke’s marvelous Quarterly.co subscription service, we’re...