When building interactive maps & data visualizations, we’re not so much designing a single view as we are designing a system for generating views. These systems allow for exploration and for viewers to not just find new answers, but generate new kinds of questions. We’ve designed interactive works for the Dalai Lama, Facebook, the State Department, MTV and many others.

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Brain Cartography for UCSF

The Chang Lab at UCSF, a team of neuroscientists studying how we hear and process speech, conducts pioneering neurosurgery for restoring speech in paralyzed patients. Communicating the value of t...

Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas

Columbia University’s Center for Spatial Research came to us with a large and unique dataset of historical census data for the areas that are now Manhattan and Brooklyn dating back to 1850. In addition to being ag...

Redesigning the Distressed Communities Index

Economic Innovation Group (EIG) approached Stamen with the goal to redesign their renowned Distressed Communities Index (DCI). The index categorizes zip codes, counties, cities, districts, and st...

Tracking viruses with WastewaterSCAN

What if you could check pathogen levels like you do the weather? We collaborated with WastewaterSCAN to develop a comprehensive platform for visualizing virus data collected from wastewater treatment plants across the United States. ...

Custom Cartography with Spherical

What We Made Stamen collaborated with Spherical Studio to help redesign their custom branded base map and provide design and data expertise for their Living Infrastructure Field Kit. Spheri...

Optimizing disaster response CrisisReady

CrisisReady, a research collaboration between the Harvard Data Science Initiative and Direct Relief, aims to advance data-driven decision making in emergency scenarios. They reached out to Stamen...

Facebook’s Own Global Base Map

It’s been our privilege to work on one of our largest and most ambitious undertakings ever: collaborating closely with a team of Facebook engineers, designers, and data experts to roll out a global, multi-scale base map for all of Facebook’s b...

Modeling ecosystems with MPG Matrix

Stamen has a fruitful multi-year relationship with MPG, a 15,000 acre ranch in Montana that specializes in habitat restoration and ecological research. MPG and Stamen collaborate with Dean Pearso...

Facebook COVID-19 Mobility Dashboard

The ultimate goal of this project — which took place over a very short timeframe as the pandemic began racing across the globe — was to help answer key questions related to COVID-19. How well have physical distancing inte...

MPG Ranch Maps

Over the course of our partnership with MPG Ranch, a 15,000 acre property in Montana focused on habitat restoration and ecological research, we’ve created and matured bespoke conservation science tools for the organizatio...