work/Interactive

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 ...

California Health Care Foundation

In late September of 2011 we published some work with the California Health Care Foundation, mapping variations in Elective Procedure Rates across the state. In English, this means we looked at how likely people are to do things like have t...

MoMA’s Talk to Me Exhibit

We were pleased to be featured in a second design exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Talk To Me, curated by Paola Antonelli. Our team had two pieces in the exhibit: prettymaps, an open data yellow-and-green smorgasbord...

OneBayArea Map

We worked with MIG on the OneBayArea interactive map, which shows approximately how far you can get from any point in the Bay Area by car, public transit, bike, or on foot, at particular times of the day. You can filter your view by the travel tim...

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...

Pretty Maps

Prettymaps is an experimental, interactive map composed of multiple freely available, community-generated data sources: All the Flickr shapefiles rendered as a...

CNN: Home and Away

We worked within a restrained palette of blacks, whites and grays to explore the sobering human cost of two wars in the Middle East by mapping casualties and helping people tell their stories. CNN hooked the maps up to CNN iReport, and we heard st...

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 ...

MSNBC Hurricane Maps

An interactive hurricane tracker, built with MSNBC’s Paige West to track major storms. The project allowed for interactive investigation of both live and historical hurricane paths,...

Crimespotting

If you hear sirens in your neighborhood, you should know why. One of the first fully web-native visualizations of urban crime data in the world, Crimespotting made this possible in San Francisco and Oakland with interactive map...