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Redesigning the Distressed Communities Index

Economic Innovation Group (EIG) approached Stamen with the goal to redesign their renowned Distressed Communities Index (DCI). The index categorizes zip codes, counties, cities, districts, and st...

Hoodline: Castro Vacancies

Local news site Hoodline asked us to help them tell stories with the amazing data that they’re collecting about the San Francisco. Our first public collaboration working with the team at Hoodline visualized their data on retail vacancies in the ...

Open Earth for The Earth Journalism Network

The Earth Journalism Network, a project of Internews, has been working in geo-journalism for years. They stand out as leaders in using geo-spatial information to tell human stories. These stories cover crucial environmental, climate, and political...

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 ...

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...