This week, Stamen is taking part in TAKE THIS HAMMER: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The show, curated by Christian Frock, will bring together works of designers, activists, and community organizations to highlight current themes of activism in a place with a long legacy of citizen...
Last week I gave a couple of presentations around the Bay Area about Stamen Design’s recent project American Panorama. https://twitter.com/jskdecker/status/702705476648067073?s=20 American Panorama is the result of more than a year of work with the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, and it’s extremely satisfying to finally get to share it with the world...
Charles Waldheim at Harvard’s Office for Urbanization was kind enough to invite me to give the closing remarks at a meeting yesterday of designers, architects, city planners and municipal leaders at Miami Beach on the topic of Miami Beach and sea level rise. It’s a great place to have this conversation, partly because the city...
Today is an exciting one: we’re pleased to announce that Stamen is offering a summer Fellowship! AND we’re doing it in partnership with longtime friends at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, along with Obscura Digital and Helios. This is a real opportunity for someone to come and work with us and Gray Area for...
We’re delighted to be participating again in the American flagship OpenStreetMap conference, State of the Map US, as both sponsors and speakers. Here’s the lineup for Saturday: 9:45 AM: Building Businesses Using OpenStreetMap by Eric Rodenbeck 4:30 PM: Teaching Mapping to Geographers by Stephanie May (Urban Mapping) & Alan McConchie And for Sunday: 11:30 AM:...
We put together some experimental visualizations earlier this year for quantified self device hot shots Jawbone, showing the behavior of several hundred TED attendees during this year’s conference in Monterey. We worked with their data team to gather up the activity that each of the devices send back to the service, and after carefully combing...
I went to my first Open Street Map conference recently — State of the Map US, in Portland. Stamen was one of the conference sponsors, along with MapBox, and ESRI and TeleNav, among others, and it’s great to see and be part of the different industries come together to support this effort. I went with Mike and...
This past January saw the first meeting of ConvergeSF, which hosts events to explore the intersection of design, art and technology here in San Francisco. Stamen’s resident mathematician, Rachel — (how cool is that?) — presented along with Doug Winnie from Lynda.com. After many years of working in Flash, Stamen has been steadily moving towards a HTML5/JavaScript toolset for...
We’re hosting our first conference on Data Visualization and Cities, to explore both the current state and the near horizons of this up-surging field in a convergence of practitioners in the field, government data and stakeholders, innovators and visionaries. More about the gathering and the Knight Foundation (who’s paying for all of this) at http://citytracking.org/...