Stamen Design
{{Short description|Data visualization design studio}}
{{Infobox company
| logo = Stamen_Logo.svg
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| type = Private
|industry = Data visualization, Cartography, Interaction design, Software engineering, Web design
| founded = {{Start date|2001|01|01}}
| founder = Eric Rodenbeck
| location_city = San Francisco
| location_country = United States
|area_served = Worldwide
| num_employees = 24{{cite web|title=Our Team|url=https://stamen.com/people/|website=Stamen|access-date=23 February 2022}}
| website = {{URL|http://www.stamen.com}}
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Stamen is a data visualization design studio based in San Francisco, California. Its clients include National Geographic,{{cite web | url=http://stamen.com/work/amazonia-under-threat/ | title=National Geographic: Amazonia Under Threat }} Facebook{{cite web | url=http://stamen.com/work/facebook-mapping-the-worlds-friendships | title=Facebook: Mapping the World's Friendships }}{{cite web|url=https://hi.stamen.com/launching-the-facebook-map-8d028c4f0e0e|last=Adkins|first=Jonah|title=Launching the Facebook Map|date=25 February 2021}} and The Dalai Lama.[http://stamen.com/work/atlas-of-emotions/ The Dalai Lama]
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,{{cite web|title=Stamen Design|url=http://www.doclab.org/company/stamen-design/|website=IDFA Doclab|access-date=23 October 2015}} remaining until 2014. In 2014, writer and UCLA professor Jon Allan Christensen joined Stamen as a partner and strategic advisor.{{cite web|title= 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|website=MarketWired|date=3 September 2014 |url=http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/stamen-design-maps-out-expansion-leadership-field-data-visualization-names-jon-1943832.htm|access-date=23 October 2015}}
Projects
In 2017 Stamen was commissioned by the Victoria and Albert Museum to design and develop Big Glass Microphone,{{cite web | url=https://www.vam.ac.uk/bigglassmic/ | title=V&A · Big Glass Mic }} 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{{cite web|author=Stamen Design |url=http://atlasofemotions.org |title=The Ekmans' Atlas of Emotions |publisher=Atlasofemotions.org |date= |accessdate=2022-06-10}} for Paul Ekman and The Dalai Lama. The New York Times{{cite news|title=Inner Peace? The Dalai Lama Made a Website for That|newspaper=The New York Times|date=6 May 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/world/dalai-lama-website-atlas-of-emotions.html|access-date=24 May 2016|last1=Randall|first1=Kevin}} 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{{cite web|url=http://www.greeninfo.org/ |title=GreenInfo Network | Information and Mapping in the Public Interest |publisher=Greeninfo.org |date= |accessdate=2022-06-10}} to develop CaliParks{{Broken anchor|date=2025-04-21|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Hipcamp#CaliParks|reason= The anchor (CaliParks) has been deleted.|diff_id=745701299}}, 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.{{cite web|title=CaliParks|url=http://caliparks.org|access-date=23 October 2015}}
Stamen is the developer and maintainer of Field Papers,[http://fieldpapers.org Field Papers] 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{{cite web|title=New & Improved Field Papers!|website=Stamen Design| date=10 July 2013 |url=http://content.stamen.com/fieldpapers-v2|access-date=23 October 2015}} and the Hewlett Foundation in conjunction with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.{{cite web|title=Field Papers|website=Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team|url=http://hotosm.org/projects/field_papers|access-date=23 October 2015}}
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
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In 2017 Stamen won the National Design Award for Interaction Design, presented by Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.{{cite web|title=2017 National Design Award Winners|website=Cooper Hewitt|date=4 May 2017|url=https://www.cooperhewitt.org/national-design-awards/2017-national-design-awards-winners/|access-date=5 May 2017}}
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{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/ |title=Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties |publisher=CNN.com |date= |accessdate=2022-06-10}} for CNN.{{cite web|title=Information is Beautiful Awards – The Results!|website=Information is Beautiful|url=http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2012/information-is-beautiful-awards-the-results-are-in/|access-date=23 October 2015}} In that year Stamen also won the Information is Beautiful "Best Studio" prize.{{cite web|title=Information is Beautiful Awards – The judges...|website=Information is Beautiful|url=http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2013/information-is-beautiful-awards-the-judges/|access-date=12 September 2016}}
In 2010, Stamen was awarded a US$400,000 grant from the Knight Foundation{{cite web|last=Walker|first=Alyssa|title=Stamen Design Wins a $400,000 Grant for New User-generated Data-viz Project|work=Fast Company |date=17 June 2010|url=http://www.fastcompany.com/1660760/stamen-design-wins-400000-grant-new-user-generated-data-viz-project|access-date=23 October 2015}} 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.{{cite web|title=maps.stamen.com|url=http://maps.stamen.com|access-date=23 October 2015}} The service is widely used in mapping projects around the world.{{cite web|title=The Wild and Wonderful World of Maps.stamen.com|url=http://citytracking.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151010023853/http://citytracking.org/|access-date=1 July 2019|archive-date=2015-10-10}} In 2021, "Watercolor" joined the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection, becoming the first live website to do so.{{cite web|url=https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2021/05/18/watercolor-maptiles-website-enters-permanent-collection-of-cooper-hewitt/|title=Watercolor Maptiles Website Enters Permanent Collection of Cooper Hewitt|work=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum|date=18 May 2021}}
Notable alumni
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.stamen.com Stamen Design - English]