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We’re happy to release two updates to the interactive map that address our most frequent feedback requests: you can now filter crime reports by time of day, and link to and view custom reports for the last two years of crime in Oakland. Hours The interface we’ve created to navigate through the hours of the...

Stamen eats together. Every day, the studio gets lunch and shares it as a group. Our Mission neighborhood is ground zero for a crazy variety of amazing food, and most of it’s available to-go. As we’ve grown over the years, we’ve started to generate progressively larger volume of packaging waste every day, and finally decided...

We’re featured as one of Icon Magazine’s 20 designers who are already changing the way we work and think this month, along with Ben Fry and Casey Reas, Area/Code, Troika, and others. There’s a vote on for which of us is the baddest-ass; you can make your voice heard (and vote for Stamen, if you...

Dopplr co-founder, blogger and all-around smartie (as well as Stamen advisor and pal) Matt Jones has posted a talk he gave as part of Umeå Institute of Design’s Spring Summit 2009. It’s chock full of interesting material, includingsome Stamen projects, as well as the Archimedes Palimpsest, Kevin Kelly’s Quantified Self, data patinas, Bruce Sterling’s keyboard,...

Stamen’s had two nice pieces of press lately. We were featured among Esquire’s “new cartographers” (along withLaura Kurgan and Sense Networks) in their “Best and Brightest” issue (out now — it’s the one with Vince Vaughan on the cover), for our recent SFMOMA Artscope project. And the studio is the subject of an essay in this quarter’sContagious...

We’re having what we hope will be the first of many semi-regular Friday happy hours at our studio tonight from 6 to 9; if you’d like to come, please RSVP here so we know how much Zubrowka to lay in.

I’ll be giving a talk with Kevin O’Malley of Tech Talk this Wednesday, November 12 at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. It’s a new kind of venue for me — Kevin describes the Club as more downtown San Francisco than South Park — and I’m really looking forward to getting some of Stamen’s ideas out in front of...

MoMA acquires “Cabspotting: New Years Eve 2007” Holy shit! Cabspotting at MoMa Back in February I was happy to announce that Cabspotting, our project with Scott Snibbe and Amy Balkin, was to be included in theMuseum of Modern Art’s forthcoming Design and The Elastic Mind exhibition. In the meantime, the MoMA has decided to acquire...

‘Looking back at the wake of my ship one day in 1917, I became interested in its beautiful white path. I said to myself, “That path is white because of the different refractions of light by the bubbles of water — H20 (not Hπ0). The bubbles are beautiful little spheres. I wonder how many bubbles I am...

Stamen’s new work with awesome real estate powerhouse Trulia (who’re going gangbusters btw) is live, at http://snapshot.trulia.com. It’s an interactive map (of course!) showing photos of homes for sale, and lets you browse across several vectors: most expensive, least expensive, newest on the market, and longest on the market. One of the things we strive...