work/Technology

Interacting with plants at the Exploratorium

The Exploratorium reached out to Stamen to help with an installation for their exhibit, ¡Plantásticas!, which provides a unique exploration of the plant world in California through diverse perspectives. We worked with their team to create an eng...

Lyft Maps

Lyft partnered with Stamen to design and implement their first custom maps for their riders and driver. Stamen worked with Lyft’s product designers and researchers to understand the unique needs of their users while developing a cartographic...

Facebook’s Own Global Base Map

It’s been our privilege to work on one of our largest and most ambitious undertakings ever: collaborating closely with a team of Facebook engineers, designers, and data experts to roll out a global, multi-scale base map for all of Facebook’s b...

Facebook COVID-19 Mobility Dashboard

The ultimate goal of this project — which took place over a very short timeframe as the pandemic began racing across the globe — was to help answer key questions related to COVID-19. How well have physical distancin...

Dropbox “How Work Became a Mess”

Dropbox came to Stamen with an idea: that work has become too complicated. Much of the new techno...

HERE XYZ

We are often asked to provide feedback on map platforms and features from both GIS software providers and corporations who roll their own technology, before they are made available to the public. As alpha consumers ...

Facebook Flowers

Facebook Flowers diagrams the viral activity that followed George Takei sharing a picture on Facebook. Each share generates a thread, and follow-on shares continue as extensions of that strand, blooming as the picture is passed from friend to frie...

Facebook: Mapping the World’s Friendships

This project visualized the degree of interconnectedness between Facebook’s hundreds of millions of members as part of Facebook’s Stories initiative. Countries are sorted by a combination of how many Facebook friendships there are betw...

Pinterest Place Pins Maps

We designed a new map for Pinterest’s Place Pins that lets you map the things you love, near and far, making the pins more actionable and bringing out the explorer in all of us. Making a map style for t...

Google #FreeAndOpen

In 2012, the International Telecommunication Union, a UN body made up of governments around the world, met in Qatar to re-negotiate International Telecommunications Regulations. These meetings were held in private and behind closed doors, which ma...