Stamen is proud to announce that Cabspotting, our project with San Francisco’s Exploratorium, Scott Snibbe andAmy Balkin, will be part of an upcoming show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The exhibition,Design and the Elastic Mind, opens to the public on February 24, 2008. The show is a survey of work...
(cut and pasted from a mail that Mike sent out this evening): Crimes mapped in Oakland Hello Everyone,We’re happy to announce that Oakland Crimespotting is back, thanks to the generous help of Oakland’s City Information Technology Department. After three months without access to report data, we’ve been granted a reliable, regularly-updated source of crime report...
Digg Pics is a dynamic visualization of images as people vote for them. Generally, when we work on a new visualization, we start with data that is already flowing, and look for interesting patterns or tendencies that already exist. In Digg’s case, this is usually a particularly fruitful process because of the tremendous volume and...
Our belated apologies to all the people who’ve been asking for the source code for splatter for the last month or so — we upgraded our publishing software and some loose ends never got resolved. Splatter #1 The project page has been updated with a new link to the appropriate files, or you can download it here....
Digg Arc is the lastest addition to our continuing work for Digg Labs. The piece has seen several weeks of development and experimentation and three phases of development punctuated by two successive public releases. This is a visual diary of its creation, shared by Shawn Allen, Tom Carden, and me, Michal Migurski. Arc began in...
Craig Hartmann and Brian Lee, design partners in Skidmore, Owings and Merril’s San Francisco office, unveiled their proposal for the new Transbay Transit Center and Tower in downtown San Francisco to a standing-room-only audience at San Francisco City Hall on Monday night. SOM asked Stamen to provide a series of potential live visualizations for the...
Hindsight, our new project with Trulia, launched a week or so ago. Since then Tom and I have been slowly collecting particularly nice examples of interesting conditions as we find them, and Tom’s been posting some of these on the Hindsight blog. We’re starting to identify a certain language of development patterns as we go:...
I’ve been talking a bit with Eddie Elliott, local designer/technologist and all-around raconteur whose beautiful digitial work predates the web, about Cabspotting lately. We (Stamen) keep meaning to get back to the project and do some new investigation, but something else (i.e. paid work that we like to do) keeps getting in the way. Eddie’s...
Stamen’s Mike Migurski announced today the release of the mapping library that he and Shawn Allen and Darren David have been working on: Modest Maps. Following up on a series of map-based projects that improve on the full-screen tile-based system that Google Maps paved the way with (haha!), Modest Maps is an open source project...
As a follow-up to the first visualizations we made of user activity on Digg (posted to the digg blog in 2006), we’ve widened the scope of our visualizations to show an entire day’s worth of digging activity on the site in greater detail. The resulting images, made by Tom Carden, illustrate some general patterns, and...