Last year, we were challenged by Esquire magazine to re-imagine a map of America to depict the country in a new light. That challenge has resulted in our first new work for this year: a piece called WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? You can read Esquire’s article on the project and see the other contributions....
Aaaaaand, we’re back, with another live twitter tracker, this time for MTV’s Spike Awards, being held now in LA. Instead of celebrities, we’re mostly tracking video game titles, and this means we can take a longer, leaner approach to the visuals than we normally can. And so: a full-width approach, with artwork from the games...
It’s been a productive couple of months here at the studio, so much so that it’s been difficult to find the time to blog about projects as they happen. We’ve added some new people, for one thing, and started to really get our hands around the operations side of the business. Which is great — but I’m...
Working closely with Dutch broadcasting heavies VPRO, yesterday we launched Nederland van Boven(“Netherlands from Above”), an interactive map of the Netherlands to accompany the forthcoming broadcast of a series of shows about this fascinating tiny country. As my friend Ben Cerveny is known to say: “New York started gentrifying in the 1970s, but Amsterdam started...
The hurricane tracker we designed for MSNBC a few years ago has been pressed back into service, with Hurricane Irene barreling up the East Coast with 115mph winds lashing the sea just east of Fort Lauderdale: The crazy thing (for me, an ex-New Yorker) is that it looks like they might actually get some pretty...
The World, Stamen’s first iPad app and our first project with the National Geographic Society, is available for download from Apple’s app store today. Yeah! The heart of the app is a globe of (you guessed it) the world, with overlays of National Geographic’s unmistakable cartography available for the different parts of the earth. Each...
Aaron went to the opening of Talk to Me at MoMA last night, and sent back some lovely photosynths autostitches and photos of the event. I’ve been back here in San Francisco working on the exhibition website and other things so wasn’t able to attend the opening, but I’m looking forward to seeing it when...
There are three basic parts to working with online representations of urban civic data in Dotspotting: coallating the data, manipulating it, and then sharing and publishing it. Up until now we’ve been focused on the first two, which makes sense: obviously you need to be able to gather and work with the data before you...
We’re pleased to be featured in a second design exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Talk To Me, curated by Paola Antonelli and opening to the press tonight. Our team have two pieces in the exhibit: prettymaps, the open data yellow-and-green smorgasbord that we accounced last year, and Walking Papers,...
Most online maps are designed to help you get around in a car. This generally means displaying: roads, businesses, buildings, on-ramps, parks, oceans and traffic congestion. Nothing wrong with that! Designers get handed a tool kit that has as many tools as a good swiss army knife, and the maps reflect these tools. Millions of...