Stamen Design Explained

Type:Private
Industry:Data visualization, Cartography, Interaction design, Software engineering, Web design
Founder:Eric Rodenbeck
Location City:San Francisco
Location Country:United States
Area Served:Worldwide
Num Employees:24[1]

Stamen is a data visualization design studio based in San Francisco, California. Its clients include National Geographic,[2] Facebook[3] [4] and The Dalai Lama.[5]

History

Stamen was founded in 2001 by Eric Rodenbeck. In 2003, Michal Migurski joined Stamen as a partner, remaining until 2013. In 2006, Shawn Allen became the studio's third partner,[6] remaining until 2014. In 2014, writer and UCLA professor Jon Allan Christensen joined Stamen as a partner and strategic advisor.[7]

Projects

In 2017 Stamen was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum to design and develop Big Glass Microphone,[8] an interactive, online visualization of the acoustic vibrations picked up by a fiber-optic cable buried beneath a road at Stanford University.

In 2016 Stamen designed an Atlas of Human Emotions[9] for Paul Ekman and The Dalai Lama. The New York Times[10] quoted Paul Ekman as saying “It is a visualization for what we think has been learned from scientific studies. It's a transformative process, a work of explanation.”

In 2015 Stamen partnered with Hipcamp and GreenInfo Network[11] to develop CaliParks, a bilingual, statewide, parks search engine that brings together park boundary and management data in California with social media content from Instagram, Flickr, Twitter, and Foursquare.[12]

Stamen is the developer and maintainer of Field Papers,[13] an open source tool for humanitarian mapping that lets users annotate OpenStreetMap in areas without internet connectivity. Field Papers was supported by grants from USAID[14] and the Hewlett Foundation in conjunction with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.[15]

In 2014 Stamen designed new default basemaps for CartoDB, using OpenStreetMap data. These map tiles are available for unlimited use under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

Awards and grants

In 2017 Stamen won the National Design Award for Interaction Design, presented by Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[16]

At the Information is Beautiful Awards in 2012, Stamen won the Gold Award for Data Journalism and the Most Beautiful award for its "Home & Away" project[17] for CNN.[18] In that year Stamen also won the Information is Beautiful "Best Studio" prize.[19]

In 2010, Stamen was awarded a US$400,000 grant from the Knight Foundation[20] to create a series of freely-available web maps based on OpenStreetMap data. The resulting map tiles (called Toner, Watercolor, and Terrain) are available for unlimited use under the Creative Commons Attribution license and are compatible with open source mapping libraries such as Leaflet and OpenLayers.[21] The service is widely used in mapping projects around the world.[22] In 2021, "Watercolor" joined the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection, becoming the first live website to do so.[23]

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. Web site: Our Team. Stamen. 23 February 2022.
  2. Web site: National Geographic: Amazonia Under Threat .
  3. Web site: Facebook: Mapping the World's Friendships .
  4. Web site: Launching the Facebook Map. Adkins. Jonah. 25 February 2021.
  5. http://stamen.com/work/atlas-of-emotions/ The Dalai Lama
  6. Web site: Stamen Design. IDFA Doclab. 23 October 2015.
  7. Web site: Stamen Design Maps Out Expansion for Leadership in the Field of Data Visualization: Names Jon Christensen as Partner & Opens New Office in Los Angeles; Announces Groundbreaking Social Sense-Making, Environmental & Mass Media Projects. MarketWired. 23 October 2015.
  8. Web site: V&A · Big Glass Mic .
  9. Web site: Stamen Design . The Ekmans' Atlas of Emotions . Atlasofemotions.org . 2022-06-10.
  10. News: Inner Peace? The Dalai Lama Made a Website for That. The New York Times. 6 May 2016. 24 May 2016. Randall. Kevin.
  11. Web site: GreenInfo Network | Information and Mapping in the Public Interest . Greeninfo.org . 2022-06-10.
  12. Web site: CaliParks. 23 October 2015.
  13. http://fieldpapers.org Field Papers
  14. Web site: New & Improved Field Papers!. Stamen Design. 10 July 2013 . 23 October 2015.
  15. Web site: Field Papers. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. 23 October 2015.
  16. Web site: 2017 National Design Award Winners. Cooper Hewitt. 4 May 2017. 5 May 2017.
  17. Web site: Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties . CNN.com . 2022-06-10.
  18. Web site: Information is Beautiful Awards – The Results!. Information is Beautiful. 23 October 2015.
  19. Web site: Information is Beautiful Awards – The judges.... Information is Beautiful. 12 September 2016.
  20. Web site: Walker. Alyssa. Stamen Design Wins a $400,000 Grant for New User-generated Data-viz Project. 17 June 2010. 23 October 2015.
  21. Web site: maps.stamen.com. 23 October 2015.
  22. Web site: The Wild and Wonderful World of Maps.stamen.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20151010023853/http://citytracking.org/. 1 July 2019. 2015-10-10.
  23. Web site: Watercolor Maptiles Website Enters Permanent Collection of Cooper Hewitt. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 18 May 2021.

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