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Urban Water Blueprint for The Nature Conservancy

Healthy cities need reliable clean water to thrive. But how do we achieve that critical goal of safe, secure water supplies for hundreds of cities all over the world? The Nature Conservancy, working with the C40 Cities Climate ...

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 ...

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...

Airbnb

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...

Nike Grid

“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...

Pro Choice America

NARAL, the political and grassroots arm of the pro-choice movement, organized the March for Women’s Lives on Washington, D.C., on, April 25, 2004. We designed and built a structure to visually represent both the march’s massive turnout and itâ...