work/Cartography

Minimalist global basemaps for Notion.ai

  Stamen collaborated with Notion Labs to design simple, beautiful maps that fit into their existing enterprise doc and AI workspace environment. These basemaps needed to be clean and modern to integrate...

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...

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...

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 rental property tours across the United States. Each tour includes a printed tour book, comprised o...

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....

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...