Aug 29, 2008
MoMA, Business Week, Lift
MoMA acquires "Cabspotting: New Years Eve 2007"
Holy shit!
Back in February I was happy to announce that Cabspotting, our project with Scott Snibbe and Amy Balkin, was to be included in the Museum of Modern Art's forthcoming Design and The Elastic Mind exhibition. In the meantime, the MoMA has decided to acquire the version of the piece that we made for the exhibit, titled "Cabspotting Flow: New Years Eve 2007," for their permanent collection.
I couldn't be jollier about this; it's an honor to be part of such a prestigious collection (and being able to say "Stamen's work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York" isn't so terrible, either).
Special thanks to Scott, Amy, Peter Richards and Susan Schwartzenberg at the Exploratorium, Gabriel Dunne, and the terrific curatorial staff at the MoMA for all their help and support.
Stamen in Business Week
Stamen was recently featured in a web design case study on data visualization in Business Week. The article, cheekily enough, starts off with a throwaway quote that I tossed out to start the interview off:
And as of this writing that article is the #1 non-sponsored google result for "web design that doesn't suck," which doesn't suck, either.
I'm off to Lift Korea
At Adam Greenfield's gracious invitation,I'm headed off to Lift Korea next week to talk about data visualization to an audience I've never had the pleasure of addressing before, and I'm super excited. I recently woke up to realize that for all Stamen's talk about cities and visualizing urban data streams, our focus has been unforgivably local and parochial, mainly concerned with western cities like San Francisco and New York and Chicago and Amsterdam. I hadn't even considered the urban condition of Tokyo, and I don't even know what's happening in Dubai or Mumbai. So I'm really pleased, not only to be speaking to a different audience about mapping and visualization, but also in a very different kind of place than I'm used to. It's been a while since I've been somewhere that's genuinely new and strange.
And Adam keeps talking up Korean saunas, beer, and roasted meats of various kinds, which I can't wait to sample!