View the project live at http://www.superdiv.mmg.mpg.de/ Eric Rodenbeck: We’re here with Stamen’s Logan Williams talking about our recent work for the Max Planck institute visualizing super-diversity. What’s the project about? Logan Williams: This was a project initiated by professors at the Max Planck Institute and the University of British Columbia, to show how the nature...
This conversation is about Stamen’s recent mural for YBCA’s Bay Area Now show. The mural, which is 60 feet long and at the corner of Mission and Third Streets in San Francisco, is about the impact that climate change will have on bird populations in the Golden Gate Recreational Area, just north of San Francisco,...
by Eric Rodenbeck and Keir Winesmith Stamen Design, Send Me SFMOMA data visualization; image courtesy SFMOMA Last June, SFMOMA launched the SMS-based service Send Me SFMOMA. The initiative was conceived as a way to shed light on the museum’s vast collection, only a fraction of which is on view at any given time. Send Me...
ALEC BURCH: We’ve just launched some new work with WE&RF, the Water Environment and Reuse Foundation. Every two to three years they send out a survey to different water utilities all across the country and across the world. The survey is centered around different types of water technologies that they are using, may use, or...
We recently designed a habitat explorer for MPG Ranch, one of our favorite clients. It’s a dynamic system that helps their scientists communicate about the exciting restoration and other work that they’re doing on the ranch, using the latest web-friendly tools and techniques. Eric Rodenbeck (ER) I’m here with Nicolette Hayes, and we’re talking about...
Stamen spent much of 2015 building and designing American Panorama, a wide-ranging historical atlas for the 21st century. Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the atlas is a project of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. In addition to the maps, the project also involved creating a set of open source tools for...
It’s easy to think that we’ve discovered most of the species on the planet. In fact, the booming field of metagenomics is using big data to help scientists better understand new and vast unexplored regions of the natural world: the microbiome. In the last few years, the price of genetic sequencing has plummeted to the...
My friend Tania Ketenjian interviewed Eve Ekman and I about our project with the Dalai Lama, the Atlas of Emotions, the other week for the BBC World Service. You can listen to the episode here (we’re on at 20:35), and what follows is a transcript of that interview. Reviewing the design of the Atlas of...