When building interactive maps & data visualizations, we’re not so much designing a single view as we are designing a system for generating views. These systems allow for exploration and for viewers to not just find new answers, but generate new kinds of questions. We’ve designed interactive works for the Dalai Lama, Facebook, the State Department, MTV and many others.

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UCSF Health Atlas

A team from UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity, led by Dr. Debby Oh, hired us to build an online tool to help researchers explore how our environment influences our health at a local ...

Berggruen Institute Governance Index

The Berggruen Ins...

CAST Culture Compass

CAST came to us to help them design and implement an interactive mapping tool that would allow users to identify all of the various art institutions in San Francisco as well as surface key data points such as facility size, own...

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 ...

Seattle City Energy Benchmarking

City Energy Project looped in Stamen to develop tools to aid cities in communicating commercial property energy usage and trends. City of Seattle further collaborated with us to enhance the Seattle Energy Benchmarki...

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 ...

#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...

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, ...

Metagenomics with The Banfield Lab

It’s easy to think that we’ve discovered most of the species on the planet. In fact, the booming field of metagenomics – the study of genomic sequences – is using big data to help scientists better understand ne...