Stamen Design

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,[5] remaining until 2014. In 2014, writer and UCLA professor Jon Allan Christensen joined Stamen as a partner and strategic advisor.[6]

In 2017 Stamen was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum to design and develop Big Glass Microphone,[7] 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 Emotion[8] for Paul Ekman and The Dalai Lama. The New York Times[9] 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[10] 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.[11]

Stamen is the developer and maintainer of Field Papers,[12] 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[13] and the Hewlett Foundation in conjunction with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.[14]

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

National Design Awards[15]

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 a Creative Commons 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]

• Rachel Binx
• Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso
• George Oates

• Web mapping
• Data visualization
• OpenStreetMap
• CartoDB
• Mapbox

• McMillan, Sam (August 28, 2019). "Artificial Intelligence". Communications Arts. Menlo Park. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
• 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.

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