blog/Roundups

2019: Data visualization projects by Stamen Design

| 01.08.20

The last year of the decade gave us plenty of opportunities to work and play with data of all kinds, from governance indices to cloud storage data to a mostly unseen but truly vast archive of “motorized photographs” by Ed Ruscha. As always, it’s the diversity of projects that come through here that I’m most...

Year Five at Stamen

| 01.02.19

In July 2015, after my first two years at Stamen, I wrote a blog post called “Year Two at Stamen”. It’s now been another three (plus) years since then, and a lot has happened. Shortly after I wrote that last blog post, my role changed from Design Technologist to Lead Cartographer, later also adding Director...

2017: Platforms for new meaning and understanding

| 01.08.18

2017 was a big year for the shop. We delivered data visualization projects for clients working in: Museums, Cities and Infrastructure, Land conservation in the American West, Global Health, Satellite imagery and neural networks, built some Data visualization platforms and Giant 3d murals, and ran and participated in multiple Data visualization classes & workshops. And...

2016: Platforms for new meaning and understanding

| 01.23.17

Every year, the team at Stamen is lucky enough to work with a wide range of clients and collaborators. Last year was a banner year for variety! The work ranged from visualizations of the hidden world of genetic ecosystems to an Atlas of Emotion for the Dalai Lama, with a diverse array of other projects...

What we did in 2011

| 01.18.12

This last year was a busy one at the studio; good and full, but often busy enough that we were moving too fast to talk about what we did. Which is a shame, because I’m proud of all of it. Having spent the last week or so getting the screenshots together (and doing a few...

Happy 2008!

| 01.13.08

Well it’s a little late to be writing an end-of-2007 wrap-up, but perhaps that’s OK. Last year I think I made my “plan for the year” in, well, May 2007, so things are moving in the right direction. In any event 2007 was an exciting year for us here at Stamen: we delivered work to...