Maps! If they didn’t exist, someone would need to invent them. There’s something inherently beautiful about mapping. One great thing about it is that mapping touches almost every industry and subject matter we can think of, from conservation to art to history to emergency management, and much more. We don’t specialize in any one industry, but we do specialize in making beautiful modern maps for data-rich organizations.

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Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles for The Getty

We designed a digital publication experience focused around scholarly work pertaining to the processes of archiving at the Getty Museum. From a cohesive overall design system for the publication itself, to co-authoring essays to be published withi...

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...

Custom branded maps for Link Logistics

Link Logistics approached Stamen to lead a redesign and redevelopment effort to improve their use of maps in guided commercial rental property tours across the United States. Each tour includes a printed tour book, ...

High-res aerial imagery for the Arizona Ecosystems Monitor

We first worked with the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems at Northern Arizona University on the early stages of their platform to monitor stress levels for every tree in the state of Arizona using high-resolution aerial imagery....

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...

Transportation data portal design for Cambridge Systematics

Cambridge Systematics came to Stamen to help them redesign their data portal and dashboards for analyzing movement patterns. They wanted help streamlining their workflow creating dashboards of transportation data fo...

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. ...

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...

Mapping Japanese American internment with Densho

In 2021, Stamen began working with Densho, a nonprofit committed to documenting the oral histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated on American soil during WWII. ...

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...