Maps & visualizations, like movies, can be viewed at many different scales. For clients like the Audubon Society, David Rumsey and MTV, we’ve designed experiences that are meant to be experienced in person in specific locations.

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YBCA Bay Area Now 8 – The Future of Birds and Climate

We were invited to participate in YBCA’s Bay Area Now show and created two pieces showcasing data from the ...

Satellite-Image Mural for SPUR

SPUR is a Planning and Urban Research Association based out of San Francisco, with offices in Oakland and San Jose. They asked Stamen to create a satellite image of the Bay Area for the wall of their office to highlight the bre...

Lake Tahoe in Depth

To support understanding the science of the lake, the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) releases an annual State of the Lake Rep...

David Rumsey Map Center

David Rumsey has collected thousands of atlases and hundreds of globes. Atlases for the blind. Gigantic collections of watercolor drawings of the Grand Canyon. Ten-foot-long painted maps of the seven principle rivers of Asia all flowing in to the ...

Bay Area Melting Pot at YBCA

In March 2016, we took part in TAKE THIS HAMMER: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The show, curated by Christian Frock, brought together works of designers, activists, ...

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 ...