Eric Rodenbeck | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Eric Rodenbeck is the Founder and Creative Director of Stamen Design, a data visualization and cartography design studio with clients ranging from the Dalai Lama to the World Health Organization to scientists around the world. Uniquely interdisciplinary, for twenty years his work intersects with the world of fine art and has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Victoria and Albert Museum, SFMOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Cooper Hewitt, and others, and is in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Smithsonian. Eric was expelled from the Cooper Union and studied science fiction and the history of technology at the New School for Social Research, both in New York City. Stamen is a winner of the 2017... more.

We have 9 objects that Eric Rodenbeck has been involved with.

Print, Chicago, from Watercolor Maptiles

Print, Baghdad, from Watercolor Maptiles

Digital image of a matrix of blue, red, yellow, green, orange and black dots arranged in an irregular plaid pattern, with mostly blue and green dots on either side of the matrix and mostly red, orange and red in its middle. A few points seem trickling away at the bottom of the matrix. There is no explanation of the significance of the different dot colors. There are more columns than rows, so the matrix appears as a wide rectangle. A legend on the left (title: Taxonomic depth) indicates that each row in the matrix represents a different type of bacteria. The legend consists of several bars next to each other (in a gradation of colors from light yellow to magenta) that show the classification of bacteria in its hierarchical subdividision. A bar next to most rows reads “Bacteria” (yellow); on its right, a light orange bar is split in “Proteobacteria”, “Actinobacteria” and others; Proteobacteria is further subdivided in the next bar (dark orange), in “Alphaproteobacteria” and “Betaproteobacteria”, and so forth. Thus the legend indicates that rows in the matrix are clustered according to the scientific classification of bacteria, so that rows next to each other represent bacteria that are more closely related on an evolutionary scale. A diagonally aligned text at the top of each column creates the illusion of depth and, although the font is very small and hardly readable, appears to indicate that each column represents a different gene product (a specific protein). Overall, the impression gained is that of a summary of genetic diversity within a sample of bacteria, organized both according to the type of bacteria (rows) and the diversity of specific metabolic functions (columns) identified within the sample. Above the matrix is a general title of the visualization: 'Thiocyanate bioreactor genome summary. High density genome summary matrix linked to a phylogenetic hierarchy'.

Eric Rodenbeck has collaborated with
Stamen Design and
Zachary Watson and
Geraldine Sarmiento and
Nathaniel Kelso and
Michal Migurski and
George Oates.

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