Stamen Design

Stamen Design
Private
Industry Data visualization, Cartography, Interaction design, Software engineering, Web design
Founded January 1, 2001 (2001-01-01)
Founder Eric Rodenbeck
Headquarters San Francisco, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Number of employees
 12[1]
Website www.stamen.com

Stamen is a design and technology studio based in San Francisco, California.

History

Stamen was founded in 2001 by Eric Rodenbeck, currently Stamen's CEO and Creative Director. In 2003 Michal Migurski joined Stamen as a partner, remaining until 2013. In 2006 Shawn Allen became the studio's third partner,[2] remaining until 2014.

In 2014, UCLA professor and writer Jon Christensen joined Stamen as a partner and strategic advisor.[3]

Projects

Stamen is the developer and maintainer of 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[4] and the Hewlett Foundation in conjunction with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team.[5]

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.

In 2015 Stamen partnered with Hipcamp and GreenInfo Network 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.[6]

Awards and grants

In 2010, Stamen was awarded a US$400,000 grant from the Knight Foundation[7] 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.[8] The service is widely used in mapping projects around the world.[9]

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 for CNN.[10]

References

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. ↑ "about Stamen". Stamen. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Stamen Design". IDFA Doclab. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "New & Improved Field Papers!". Stamen Design. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  5. ↑ "Field Papers". Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  6. ↑ "CaliParks". Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Walker, Alyssa. "Stamen Design Wins a $400,000 Grant for New User-generated Data-viz Project". Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "maps.stamen.com". Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "The Wild and Wonderful World of Maps.stamen.com". Retrieved 23 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Information is Beautiful Awards – The Results!". Information is Beautiful. Retrieved 23 October 2015.

External links

See also


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