Stamen’s New Web App Renders Digital Maps In Watercolor
A new Creative Commons tile set adds a human, organic touch to cold digital maps. Now if only there were more projects like this.
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IPad App Turns Your Twitter Feed Into Microbial Warfare
Biologic is the latest offering from Bloom, a company founded by alums of famed data-viz firm Stamen.
Sign Of The Times: Safety Maps Help You Plan For Catastrophe
Most of us live in places saturated with comms signals. We carry phones in our pockets and we’ve come to rely on them for coordinating our movements. As Clay Shirky points out, we’ve basically replaced planning with coordination. We don’t make plans, we say, "I’ll call you when I get there." What happens when you can’t call?
Safety Maps is a service designed to help people make a plan for meeting up in the event of a emergency.
The 22 Best Infographics We Found In 2011
2011 was a huge year for infographic design. Large companies embraced data renderings as a business strategy like never before, whether it was to promote their brand (GE) or bolster their bottom line (the New York Times). Nowhere was that more evident than at Facebook.
Wanted: Blankets and Napkins Printed With Personalized Maps
"Maps get us around, but they also hold our memories," says artist and entrepreneur Nikki Gunn Rodenbeck.
Infographic Of The Day: Where Should You Live, Based On Commute And Price?
Figuring out where to move is an aggravating guessing game: How far is this new house to work? If I want a short commute via bus, where can I live? Can I afford this?
Ordinarily, you'd have to spend way too long sorting through all these variables. But if you're thinking about a place in the San Francisco Bay Area, you're in luck, thanks to a phenomenal interactive map created by Stamen for Mig.
Infographic of the Day: Who the Broadband Revolution Left Behind
In America's rural areas, the internet barely exists as you and I know it: People can't get broadband in their house; they use dial-up modems at home; and the only place they can hope to watch a YouTube video is the local library.
Infographic of the Day: What the Census Knows About Your Neighbors
The 2010 Census data was just released before Christmas, but Stamen designer Michal Migurski already has their infographics beat. His interactive census visualizer, ThisTract.com, mashes up numbers from the previous census with your web browser's built-in geolocation technology (not to mention a cornucopia of mapping and graphing APIs) to blow up your block into a small universe of personalized, visualized datapoints.
Stamen Helps You Ask Obama Questions Via Twitter
Thousands of people are directing their tweets to President Obama and adding the #ask tag, in the hopes that the President will answer them on a live special airing today on BET, CMT and MTV. "A Conversation with Barack Obama" also features a Town Hall Twitter Tracker, a real-time interface that will show the tweets both online and on-air, created by data visualization company Stamen.
Infographic of the Day: The Hottest Pick-Up Spots in NYC and SF
Every single guy or girl knows the feeling: You get dressed up to go out, hoping to meet someone. And then you get to the bar. And it's just filled with other girls/dudes. Your night busts out, or it never quite recovers from the buzzkill.
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