work/Product Design

Navigation cartography for HudHud Maps

Since September 2024, Stamen has collaborated with HudHud Maps, a startup based in Saudi Arabia, that is focused on providing current, highly detailed data of otherwise poorly mapped cities in the Middle East. HudHu...

Brain Cartography for UCSF

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

Where Seva works to restore vision globally

Stamen created a lightweight interface highlighting the global impact of Seva, a nonprofit eye care organization that works with local communities around the world to develop self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight. The interface ...

Building a data platform for Natural Capital Project

The Natural Capital Project came to Stamen to help design a data hub with the goal of creating a navigable and open-access resource built on CKAN to support sustainable decision-making. Additionally, the data hub su...

Showcasing technology in archival materials with Science Museum

The Science Museum in London needed help creating an exhibit for their museum in Bradford, England to showcase how historians are using advanced digital technologies to bring historical Bradford to life. By using te...

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...

UCSF Health Atlas

A team from UCSF School of Medicine Dean’s Office of Population Health and Health Equity, led by Dr. Debby Oh, hired us to build an online tool to help researchers explore how our environment influences our health at a local ...

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...