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.

work/Maps

Satellite-Image Mural for SPUR

SPUR is a Planning and Urban Research Association based out of San Francisco, with offices in Oakland and San Jose. They asked Stamen to create a satellite image of the Bay Area for the wall of their office to highlight the bre...

The Blue Greenway

The San Francisco Parks Alliance (SFPA) began the Blue Greenway project back in June of 2004 with a simple goal in mind: to envision a 13-mile greenway/waterway network along San Francisco’s southeastern waterfront. The Blue Greenway will comple...

David Rumsey Map Center

David Rumsey has collected thousands of atlases and hundreds of globes. Atlases for the blind. Gigantic collections of watercolor drawings of the Grand Canyon. Ten-foot-long painted maps of the seven principle rivers of Asia all flowing in to the ...

Berkeley’s Ecoengine

Most people know that the University of California at Berkeley is a world-class research university. Some folks have heard of the Hearst Museum of Anthropology. But not so many people know that the university houses seven natural history museums w...

#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...

Bay Area Melting Pot at YBCA

In March 2016, we took part in TAKE THIS HAMMER: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The show, curated by Christian Frock, brought together works of designers, activists, ...

American Panorama for the University of Richmond

American Panorama brings a great work of US historical scholarship into the 21st century. The project looks at key events and timelines that have shaped American history and is a major piece of digital scholarship by the Digita...

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 Terrain

We’ve been quietly working under a grant from the Knight Foundation to do something that no one seems to have done before: publicly compiling as many open-licensed, locally-created terrain data sets as possible to stitch together a global set....

The City from the Valley: Google, Apple, Facebook buses

Historically, workers have lived in residential suburbs while commuting to work in the city. For Silicon Valley, however, the situation is reversed: Many of the largest technology companies are based in suburbs but look to recruit younger knowledg...