Zak Stone

Zak Stone is a Los Angeles-based writer and a contributing editor of Playboy Digital.

His writing has appeared in TheAtlantic.com, NYMag.com, Los Angeles, The Utne Reader, GOOD, and elsewhere. Visit his personal website here.

Stories by Zak StoneRSS

Fast Company

What Does It Look Like When You 3-D Print Music?

These sculptures were made by a printer as it screeched out classics with its motor.

Fast Company

Visualizing 100 Years Of Climate Data

This is what a century’s worth of climate data looks like when funneled into an interactive, color-coded map.

Fast Company

Charting The Ever-Rising Numbers Of American Obesity

This infographic shows what’s happened to our waistlines from 1995 to the present.

Fast Company

Take A Graphic Stroll Through Your Own Personal Meta Data

Buried in your thousands of old emails is a picture of you and your social network. A new tool called Immersion will show it to you.

Fast Company

A World Of Only Airports Is A Strikingly Different Place

A new mapping project uses only airport runways as geographic reference points, and gives a picture of a world where mobility isn’t available to everyone.

Fast Company

Mapping The Climate Change Deniers Making Our Laws

This map shows where climate-denying legislators come from–and how many weather-related disasters their states have faced in the past few years.

Fast Company

The Shameful Delays In Getting Help To Injured Veterans

Returning veterans are being forced to wait an incredibly long time to get benefits from the government. This graphic shows the scope of the problem.

Fast Company

Mesmerizing Maps Of A City’s Moving Buses

These maps of how fast the buses drive through Boston offer a beautiful look at the city’s transit system.

Co.Design

The U.S. Cities With The Best Parks

The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore rankings look at the quality and quantity of parks in the 50 largest U.S. cities. Some of the results might surprise you.

Co.Design

Y’all Vs. You All: Mapping The Linguistic Peculiarities Of American English

These heat maps of the U.S. break down how people use language and pronounce words differently in different parts of the country: Soda vs. pop, sub vs. hero, water fountain vs. … bubbler?

Ideas

Why This Van In Fresno Is Releasing A Million Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes Every Week

Ideas

Not Everyone Has A Garage, But What If The Streetlights Were Electric Car Charging Stations?

Ideas

These Projects Are Using Art To Fight The Prison Industrial Complex

Entertainment

Bigger Than Booger: Curtis Armstrong On Thriving Through Four Decades In Hollywood

Entertainment

This Ad Starkly Depicts Black Parents Having “The Talk” With Their Kids

Entertainment

See What America Hates Most, State By State

Co.Design

Product

This Rotary Phone Is A Delightfully Analog Way To Read The Web

Product

Someday You Could Swallow This Wireless Robot Like A Pill

Spaces

Airports Have Gotten Insanely Complicated

Fast Company

Leadership

Found: Comfortable Sandals That Are Appropriate To Wear To Work

Entertainment

Bigger Than Booger: Curtis Armstrong On Thriving Through Four Decades In Hollywood

Leadership

Zak Stone

Stories by Zak StoneRSS

What Does It Look Like When You 3-D Print Music?

These sculptures were made by a printer as it screeched out classics with its motor.

Visualizing 100 Years Of Climate Data

This is what a century’s worth of climate data looks like when funneled into an interactive, color-coded map.

Charting The Ever-Rising Numbers Of American Obesity

This infographic shows what’s happened to our waistlines from 1995 to the present.

Take A Graphic Stroll Through Your Own Personal Meta Data

Buried in your thousands of old emails is a picture of you and your social network. A new tool called Immersion will show it to you.

A World Of Only Airports Is A Strikingly Different Place

A new mapping project uses only airport runways as geographic reference points, and gives a picture of a world where mobility isn’t available to everyone.

Mapping The Climate Change Deniers Making Our Laws

This map shows where climate-denying legislators come from–and how many weather-related disasters their states have faced in the past few years.

The Shameful Delays In Getting Help To Injured Veterans

Returning veterans are being forced to wait an incredibly long time to get benefits from the government. This graphic shows the scope of the problem.

Mesmerizing Maps Of A City’s Moving Buses

These maps of how fast the buses drive through Boston offer a beautiful look at the city’s transit system.

The U.S. Cities With The Best Parks

The Trust for Public Land’s ParkScore rankings look at the quality and quantity of parks in the 50 largest U.S. cities. Some of the results might surprise you.

Y’all Vs. You All: Mapping The Linguistic Peculiarities Of American English

These heat maps of the U.S. break down how people use language and pronounce words differently in different parts of the country: Soda vs. pop, sub vs. hero, water fountain vs. … bubbler?

Ideas

Why This Van In Fresno Is Releasing A Million Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes Every Week

Not Everyone Has A Garage, But What If The Streetlights Were Electric Car Charging Stations?

These Projects Are Using Art To Fight The Prison Industrial Complex

Entertainment

Bigger Than Booger: Curtis Armstrong On Thriving Through Four Decades In Hollywood

This Ad Starkly Depicts Black Parents Having “The Talk” With Their Kids

See What America Hates Most, State By State

Co.Design

This Rotary Phone Is A Delightfully Analog Way To Read The Web

Someday You Could Swallow This Wireless Robot Like A Pill

Airports Have Gotten Insanely Complicated

Fast Company

Found: Comfortable Sandals That Are Appropriate To Wear To Work

Bigger Than Booger: Curtis Armstrong On Thriving Through Four Decades In Hollywood

This Site Hopes To Be The First Troll-Free Sex Ed Oasis On The Internet