We collaborate with entertainment clients to craft data visualizations that enhance storytelling and audience engagement. This work includes projects like MTV’s interactive displays, which visualize global music and cultural trends, visualizing fundraising for schools with Stephen Colbert and the Huffington Post, mapping London-wide footraces for Nike, and maps of the London 2012 Olympics.

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#BestSchoolDay for Stephen Colbert

The #BestSchoolDay project from DonorsChoose was a national effort to get every education project on the donation website funded in a single day. The Huffington Post helped out by sponsoring and promoting the #BestSchoolDay pro...

Where Does The Money Go?

In mid-2011, Esquire magazine challenged five designers, architects, and artists to recreate the map of America to reflect the state of the union in 2012. Stamen was one of them, and Esquire’s instructions to us ...

A mapping platform for the London 2012 Olympic Games

We designed a new look for the maps used by LOCOG (the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games). The project organized tens of thousands of geocoded articles and photos that the London 2012 team produc...

Nike Grid

Weiden+Kennedy launched a campaign for Nike that was based on using London’s iconic red phone booths as starting and end points in a race around the City. Competitors called in from the starting booth to a s...

MTV Music Awards Twitter Visualizations

We worked with MTV on a series of live visualizations of realtime Twitter data. The effort started with the 2009 Video Music Awards, and was extended to multiple other simultaneous ...

Empty City

Empty City” investigates the fractured urbanism of San Francisco, Las Vegas and the road in between. As in our experiences of these places, events occur in fragments, via unexpected juxtapositions, and are often gone before they have fully arriv...