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Custom Cartography with Spherical

What We Made Stamen collaborated with Spherical Studio to help redesign their custom branded base map and provide design and data expertise for their Living Infrastructure Field Kit. Spheri...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

Surging Seas Risk Zone Map for Climate Central

Over multiple years, we worked with Climate Central and New American Media to visualize the impact of rising sea levels to coastal residents, infrastructure, and property. The Risk Zone Map combines census data with elevational projections to crea...

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...

Field Papers

We developed Field Papers to help people create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world. Once you print it, you can take it outside, into the field, to record notes and observations about the area you’re looking at, o...

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 ...