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Shadows Searching in the Knight

Stamen Design | 12.08.10

There’s alot to talk about as we continue to move forward with Dotspotting. I’m going to try and blog a bit more frequently about it and describe individual aspects of the project, instead of waiting for a big long blog post that takes me all afternoon, and see how that goes. Search So yesterday I...

Walking Papers Developments

Stamen Design | 11.30.10

Since Mike launched Walking Papers I’ve been fascinated with the aesthetic quality of the scans that people have been uploading. Last weekend, when he and Aaron were down at Camp Roberts working on the project, I asked him to make a change to the way that scans are displayed so that the maps are easier...

Prettymaps Paris

Stamen Design | 11.09.10

While I’m busy not blogging about the Great Urban Hack that I attended at GAFFTA in the Tenderloin this weekend, here’s the latest on the prettymaps project: Paris. And also:

Nike Grid: Using London’s phone boxes as goal posts

Stamen Design | 10.25.10

View Project There’s a thread running straight from Newspaper Club to this project. We’ve got all this marvelous infrastructure — newspaper printing presses and everything that goes along with that, like delivery trucks, ink distribution systems and pre-press services in the one example, and phone boxes, land lines running underneath the streets and advertising services on the...

A conversation with Barack Obama: live Twitter and television integration

Stamen Design | 10.14.10

Shawn and I are camped out in a trailer outside BET studios in Washington, DC to support BET, CMT and MTV’s “A Conversation with Barack Obama,” which airs at 4pm Eastern Time today. It’s the usual madcap Keystone Cops situation that seems to be an inevitable part of live television production with wires and cables...

Prettymaps on 20×200 — prints!

Stamen Design | 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

Stamen Design | 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

Stamen Design | 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...

Knight News Challenge update

Stamen Design | 08.27.10

This is my first post on our new Citytracking project, which is being supported by a grant from the Knight News Challenge. We’ve been working on it for a good part of August.Thus far it’s been primarily talk and thinking and writing, working on the overall structure of the project, trying to get a handle...

Announcing Polymaps

Stamen Design | 08.20.10

I posted some early examples last week, and SimpleGeo announced this morning the result of our collaboration with them over the past few months: Polymaps.org. We’ve been working with Stamen to provide visual analysis of the huge datasets that we’re working with, and how people can communicate this data in sophisticated ways. A first step...