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Dropbox “How Work Became a Mess”

Dropbox came to Stamen with an idea: that work has become too complicated. Much of the new techno...

Ed Ruscha’s Photo Archive for the Getty Institute

In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Using a motorized camera mounted on the back of a pickup truck, he methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street. He ha...

Golden Gate Recreation Area Map

In 2013, the Parks Conservancy reached out to us to help with a new initiative: creating a beautiful map to help more locals (and tourists) get outside and into the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the nation’s largest urban national park, ...

Open Earth for The Earth Journalism Network

The Earth Journalism Network, a project of Internews, has been working in geo-journalism for years. They stand out as leaders in using geo-spatial information to tell human stories. These stories cover crucial environmental, climate, and political...

Pinterest Place Pins Maps

We designed a new map for Pinterest’s Place Pins that lets you map the things you love, near and far, making the pins more actionable and bringing out the explorer in all of us. Making a map style for t...

#BestSchoolDay for Stephen Colbert

The #BestSchoolDay project from DonorsChoose was a national effort to get every education project on the donation website funded in a single day. The Huffington Post helped out by sponsoring and promoting the #BestSchoolDay pro...

Where Does The Money Go?

In mid-2011, Esquire magazine challenged five designers, architects, and artists to recreate the map of America to reflect the state of the union in 2012. Stamen was one of them, and Esquire’s instructions to us ...

CNN: Home and Away

We worked within a restrained palette of blacks, whites and grays to explore the sobering human cost of two wars in the Middle East by mapping casualties and helping people tell their stories. CNN hooked the maps up to CNN iReport, and we heard st...

CAST Culture Compass

CAST came to us to help them design and implement an interactive mapping tool that would allow users to identify all of the various art institutions in San Francisco as well as surface key data points such as facility size, own...