Shawn Allen
Partner & Design Technologist
Shawn is a designer, programmer, and partner at Stamen. A jack of all trades and master of many, he takes an active role in both the conceptual design and technical implementation of Stamen's dynamic visualization and mapping systems.
A Connecticut native, Shawn moved to San Francisco in 1999 to pursue a fine arts education. But the pull of a career in the frenzied dot-com era proved too strong, and in 2000 he began working alongside Michal Migurski at a short-lived start-up. After several tumultuous years in the web design business he switched gears and developed the user interface for a console-based edition of the "Sims" video game franchise at Maxis. Shawn began working with Stamen in 2005 and became our third partner in January 2006.