work/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,...

Our friend Rebecca Solnit asked us to lend our visualization skills to a pressing and dangerous problem: the nature of the relationship between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin. We worked ...

In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Using a motorized camera mounted on the back of a pickup truck, he methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street. He ha...

“What’s particularly cool about the competition is the GRID website, where Nike not only tallies scores but is also serving up visualizations of the race. Since it’s collecting data all the time—every time a competitor makes a call fro...

We designed a set of maps for Airbnb, showing the explosive growth of the service from the time it started in 2008 to 2011. The first visualization represents Airbnb’s top 50 markets. The thickness of the lines corresponds to the relative volume...

In 2013, the Parks Conservancy reached out to us to help with a new initiative: creating a beautiful map to help more locals (and tourists) get outside and into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the nation’s largest urban national park, ...

Good-looking maps used to be the domain of experts. That’s been changing quite a bit in the last few years, and it’s easier than ever now for developers to access mapping data. Never content to leave well enough alone, we thought we’d...

Stamen was invited to speak at the Jet Propulsion Lab for Data Visualization from Design to Discovery. We were thrilled to be onstage alongside ...

We’ve been quietly working under a grant from the Knight Foundation to do something that no one seems to have done before: publicly compiling as many open-licensed, locally-created terrain data sets as possible to stitch together a global set....

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...