About Stamen
Stamen is a globally recognized strategic design partner and one of the most established cartography and data visualization studios in the industry. For over two decades, Stamen has been helping industry giants, universities, and civic-minded organizations alike bring their ideas to life through designing and storytelling with data. We specialize in translating raw data into interactive visuals that inform, inspire and incite action. At the heart of this is our commitment to research and ensuring we understand the challenges we face. We embrace ambiguity, we thrive in data, and we exist to build tools that educate and inspire our audiences to act.
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Exploring the ecclesiastical map of the Catholic Church in the US
Eric Brelsford, Kelsey Taylor | 18.12.25
Today we’re excited to announce that Stamen worked with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to release a map of dioceses and other administrative regions in the US. The map is the first official and freely accessible interactive map of Catholic dioceses in the US. In the Latin Rite, dioceses are the building...
What We Map in the Shadows
Kelsey Taylor, Alan McConchie | 31.10.25
Dark greetings! We’ve been thinking a lot about dark maps in recent months (as Kelsey presented about recently at NACIS) and the thought occurred to us: how quickly could we make a nice dark mode version of Stamen’s iconic Toner style? As you may recall, a couple years ago we created vectorized versions of our...
Brain Cartography: Mapping a place that everyone knows, but (almost) no one has ever been
Nicolette Hayes | 02.10.25
Why use a map? Imagine a map of your hometown. Seeing that a creek runs along main street or that there are connecting side streets running adjacent to that one highway with the notorious stoplight is the kind of spatial information that could meaningfully impact your life. Now imagine a map of a town you’ve...