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Lyft Maps

Lyft partnered with Stamen to design and implement their first custom maps for their riders and driver. Stamen worked with Lyft’s product designers and researchers to understand the unique needs of their users while developing a cartographic...

Dropbox “How Work Became a Mess”

Dropbox came to Stamen with an idea: that work has become too complicated. Much of the new techno...

PENNY Machine Learning Tools with Digital Globe

Penny is an AI built by Stamen Design and researchers at Carnegie Mellon University on top of GBDX, DigitalGlobe’s ...

Big Glass Microphone at the V&A in London

Infrastructure is all around us. Some we can see, like roads, and some we can’t, like radio waves. Big Glass Microphone looks at the intersection between these two kinds of infrastructure by visualizing the vibrations in a fi...

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...

United States Broadband Maps for the FCC

Broadbandmap.gov collected internet connection data across the US. Funded by the FCC, the project let viewers compare connection type, actual speeds versus those advertised, availability compared to demographics, and other aspects of their broadba...

Pretty Maps

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

Visualizing color with Adobe Kuler

Visualizations of the use of color in Adobe’s product suites, as tracked by Kuler.

Digg Labs

Digg.com was, for a time, one of the most-visited sites on the internet. The site’s ever-changing content, all submitted by members, provides a vivid window onto what was interesting online, ...