Stamen Design

Stamen Design
Company typePrivate
IndustryData visualization, Cartography, Interaction design, Software engineering, Web design
FoundedJanuary 1, 2001 (2001-01-01)
FounderEric Rodenbeck
Headquarters
San Francisco
,
United States
Area served
Worldwide
Number of employees
24[1]
Websitewww.stamen.com

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

National Design Awards[16]

In 2017 Stamen won the National Design Award for Interaction Design, presented by Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.[17]

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[18] for CNN.[19] In that year Stamen also won the Information is Beautiful "Best Studio" prize.[20]

In 2010, Stamen was awarded a US$400,000 grant from the Knight Foundation[21] 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.[22] The service is widely used in mapping projects around the world.[23] In 2021, "Watercolor" joined the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection, becoming the first live website to do so.[24]

Notable alumni

See also

References

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  • Saplakoglu, Yasemin (July 22, 2017). "Is the ground beneath the Stanford campus listening to you?". San Jose Mercury News. San Jose, CA. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
  • Schwab, Katharine (June 1, 2017). "The Smart City Already Exists—Under Our Streets". Fast Company. New York, NY. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  • Bliss, Laura (May 30, 2017). "Beneath a Bustling University Campus, a Big Cable Is Listening". The Atlantic CityLab. New York, NY. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  • Anderton, Frances (May 17, 2017). "Stamen brings artistry to data visualization — and wins Cooper Hewitt Design Award". KCRW. Los Angeles, CA. Retrieved June 2, 2017.
  • Hardy, Quentin (January 6, 2014). "A Makeover for Maps". New York Times. New York, NY. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  • "Finance: Nasdaq and the colour of money". Financial Times Magazine. July 26, 2013. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  • Madrigal, Alexis (June 10, 2013). "Stamen Design Reveals an Instagram for Maps: A Radical, Beautiful New Tool". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  • Dickey, Megan Rose (October 12, 2012). "Here's A Map To Silicon Valley's Cushy Private Buses". Business Insider. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
  1. ^ "Our Team". Stamen. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  2. ^ "National Geographic: Amazonia Under Threat".
  3. ^ "Facebook: Mapping the World's Friendships".
  4. ^ Adkins, Jonah (25 February 2021). "Launching the Facebook Map".
  5. ^ The Dalai Lama
  6. ^ "Stamen Design". IDFA Doclab. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  7. ^ "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. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  8. ^ "V&A · Big Glass Mic".
  9. ^ Stamen Design. "The Ekmans' Atlas of Emotions". Atlasofemotions.org. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  10. ^ Randall, Kevin (6 May 2016). "Inner Peace? The Dalai Lama Made a Website for That". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
  11. ^ "GreenInfo Network | Information and Mapping in the Public Interest". Greeninfo.org. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  12. ^ "CaliParks". Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  13. ^ Field Papers
  14. ^ "New & Improved Field Papers!". Stamen Design. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  15. ^ "Field Papers". Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  16. ^ "Stamen Design Wins Prestigious Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's 2017 National Design Award for Interaction Design".
  17. ^ "2017 National Design Award Winners". Cooper Hewitt. 4 May 2017. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  18. ^ "Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties". CNN.com. Retrieved 2022-06-10.
  19. ^ "Information is Beautiful Awards – The Results!". Information is Beautiful. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  20. ^ "Information is Beautiful Awards – The judges..." Information is Beautiful. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
  21. ^ Walker, Alyssa (17 June 2010). "Stamen Design Wins a $400,000 Grant for New User-generated Data-viz Project". Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  22. ^ "maps.stamen.com". Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  23. ^ "The Wild and Wonderful World of Maps.stamen.com". Archived from the original on 2015-10-10. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  24. ^ "Watercolor Maptiles Website Enters Permanent Collection of Cooper Hewitt". Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. 18 May 2021.