ACA 411: Visualizing Obamacare

| 06.18.14

This year, people across California began getting health insurance coverage in new ways, thanks to President Barack Obama’s signature Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare. As the new marketplaces, subsidies, and penalties got discussed and debated in the media this spring, we at Stamen were hard at work with our frequent client the California Healthcare...

RFPs, Parks, and the Internet

| 06.10.14

Here at Stamen, we’ve been doing more works for and about parks, first our map for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and then our own parks and social media experiment at parks.stamen.com. We love parks! I especially love parks. I spent almost a decade telling stories of local parks and wildlife for Bay Nature...

All the people underwater: new Surging Seas map of California

| 06.10.14

Climate change is one of those things that can be so invisible, and in some cases so subtle, that it can be hard to conceptualize. Over the years, our work with Climate Central has sought to make one symptom of this looming problem — sea level rise — much easier to see. The maps we’ve made together reveal what’s...