We're a data visualization and cartography studio. Our work lives in the Cooper Hewitt collection, on the front page of National Geographic, and inside the products of Google, Facebook, and Audubon.
Three service lines, one studio. We design from data, not the other way around.
We help our clients find and tell the stories in their data for the audience they need to communicate with. Reports, data journalism, real-time narratives.
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Visually stunning and technically sophisticated digital maps. Every stage of map production — from requirements through deployment.
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Make data insightful and actionable. Dashboards, analysis tools, navigable interfaces grounded in real data insight.
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Our ability to find and illuminate the story in the data is central to how we work — and it's what makes us unique. There is no "one size fits all" project for Stamen.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
William McDonough & Michael Braungart
"We want to be more effective than we are efficient."
Eric Rodenbeck · Founder
Three open-source basemap styles, all designed at Stamen, now distributed via Stadia Maps. Our Watercolor style joined the Cooper Hewitt permanent collection in 2021 — the first live website to do so.
We love tackling big, thorny and complicated projects. Here are three that did exactly that.
A global basemap design refresh for Amazon's location platform. Shipped in 2023, refined in 2024 for legibility at every zoom.
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Geographic disparities in California health outcomes, made navigable for researchers, journalists, and policymakers.
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A 30-foot collaborative data-mural project. Quantitative ecology rendered as physical, hand-painted artwork.
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Our ability to find and illuminate the story in the data is central to how we work, and it's what makes us unique. We design from data, and not the other way around.
There is no "one size fits all" project for Stamen. Our small size means we take a highly personalized approach, emphasizing collaboration and flexibility with our clients.
We've got depth, and we've got breadth. We love tackling big, thorny and complicated projects, and we love to learn new things.
We exist to make data insightful and actionable. And we're quite serious about our work having a positive impact in our communities and in the world.
We genuinely enjoy collaborating. Transparency, curiosity, and joy — the three values we keep coming back to.
We're a small team — every project comes with founder-level attention. Tell us what you're working on.
