Stamen Design

@stamen.com

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We are a data visualization and cartography studio with over 20 years of experience helping people find and tell more beautiful stories with data. Learn more at stamen.com Mastodon: vis.social/@stamen

A blue, green, and yellow bivariate choropleth map of counties in the United States showing various health indicators, overlaid with the text "We’ve co-authored an article on Health Atlas with our longtime partners at UCSF"
The State of the Map US Logo with headshots of Stamen presenters Alan McConchie and Kelsey Taylor
A photo of the painter Bob Ross at his easel holding a palette overlaid with the text "You? Your Tools?"
A colorful abstract map of Tokyo
A photo of Eric Rodenbeck overlaid with the text: Parsons MS Data Visualization Lecture Series 5/2/2026 7pm 66 W 12th St There's a Crack in Everything: Gaps, Seams, and the Work of Knowing.
A text-only slide with the words "Re-imaging the Archive: MDes Open Project 9704 / Spring 2026 / Harvard GSD"
A map of the US overlaid with the text: "How did we visualize the complex structure of the Catholic Church?"
A black-and-white headshot of a woman on a yellow background, overlaid with the text "Elected!" and "NACIS: North American Cartographic Information Society"
A dark-colored terrain map overlaid with the text "What makes a dark map style work?"
A screenshot of a black and white map with encroaching shadows around the margins. Overlaid on the map is the text "Dark greetings! (bat emoji) We took our iconic Toner map style..."
A mysterious map of glowing dots and clouds, overlaid with the text "Knowing where something is isn’t the same as caring where something is..."
A photo of several people sitting around tables working on laptops at a mapping workshop. Overlaid on the image is the text "Read about our recent data viz for climate science workshop on the blog now"
A map showing subway lines in DC with the text overlaid: "We designed maps for transit-first navigation in Washington, DC"
A montage of maps overlaid with the text "Celebrating the 21st anniversary of OpenStreetMap with a new post"
A section of a "galaxy brain" meme about basemaps, overlaid with the text "Check out our recap from State of the Map US 2025"
The cover image of an online book with the text "Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles: ARTIST IMAGE ARCHIVE CITY" In the background is a photo of a car from the 1970s with rectangular buildings and palm trees in the distance
A montage of maps, overlaid with the text "Saying farewell to one of our beloved old map tools"
How open source tooling empowers our cartography debugging workflows...
Telling the story of how technology and people-power unlocked new insights for historians
Master in Design Studies presents OPEN CONVERSATIONS ENGAGING SPACES: EXPLORING DIGITAL + ANALOG RESPONSIVE ENVIRONMENTS Allen Sayegh, Eric Rodenbeck, and Marina Otero in conversation with K. Michael Hays, John May, and Malkit Shoshan. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 2025 4:00-6:00 PM GUND HALL, STUBBINS ROOM 112
A map of New York overlaid with the text "How we did it: vector beeswarm dot density data visualization"
A montage of nine colorful maps arrayed in a 3 by 3 grid. Each map is a Stamen project using OpenStreetMap data, styled in a different way. A banner of text on top of the montage reads "Happy 20th birthday OpenStreetMap!" in black Helvetica text on top of a bright yellow banner.
A drawing of the "Null Island Buoy" on a tombstone floating in the ocean. The text on the tombstone says "R. I. P. Null Island Buoy 1998-2021"
Designing an Easter Egg (such as Null Island)...
A screenshot of the Distressed Communities Index interactive map. Each zip code is colored on a spectrum according to whether it is economically distressed or prosperous. A summary text box reads "The United States has 15.6% of its population living in a distressed zip code and 24.4% living in a prosperous zip code."