We’re happy to release two updates to the interactive map that address our most frequent feedback requests: you can now filter crime reports by time of day, and link to and view custom reports for the last two years of crime in Oakland. Hours The interface we’ve created to navigate through the hours of the...
Well, seeing as we’ve got a President who’s asserting the necessity of science (and that it will no longer be subject to political ideology, hooray, what a rock we’ve been under for the past eight years, doesn’t the day feel brighter?).. …it feels like as good a day as any to announce Stamen’s new work...
Stamen eats together. Every day, the studio gets lunch and shares it as a group. Our Mission neighborhood is ground zero for a crazy variety of amazing food, and most of it’s available to-go. As we’ve grown over the years, we’ve started to generate progressively larger volume of packaging waste every day, and finally decided...
Dopplr co-founder, blogger and all-around smartie (as well as Stamen advisor and pal) Matt Jones has posted a talk he gave as part of Umeå Institute of Design’s Spring Summit 2009. It’s chock full of interesting material, includingsome Stamen projects, as well as the Archimedes Palimpsest, Kevin Kelly’s Quantified Self, data patinas, Bruce Sterling’s keyboard,...
Our friends at Flickr (“almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world”) have launched Stamen’s new project with them, Flickr Clock. It’s a browser for the videos that people have recently started uploading to the site. They’re arranged chronologically, and drawn from videos that people have posted to theflickrclock group...
Stamen’s had two nice pieces of press lately. We were featured among Esquire’s “new cartographers” (along withLaura Kurgan and Sense Networks) in their “Best and Brightest” issue (out now — it’s the one with Vince Vaughan on the cover), for our recent SFMOMA Artscope project. And the studio is the subject of an essay in this quarter’sContagious...
I’ll be giving a talk with Kevin O’Malley of Tech Talk this Wednesday, November 12 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. It’s a new kind of venue for me — Kevin describes the Club as more downtown San Francisco than South Park — and I’m really looking forward to getting some of Stamen’s ideas out in front of...
Over the weekend we released, for MSNBC, an interactive hurricane tracker. And just in time, because Hurricane Gustav is apparently “bearing down on Louisiana like a shotgun full of wind and rain.” I’m really pleased with how this project’s turned out; in particular I’ve not seen a map like this before that gives a sense...
