Stamen is a design and technology studio in San Francisco.

We design and build maps and data visualizations in the Mission District for a wide variety of clients. Hire us!

Read more about the studio here, catch up on the latest at our blog, follow us on twitter, or subscribe to an RSS feed for updates.

We're hiring

We have an open position for a senior backend developer.

Recent Projects

October 11: Visualizing how viral photos spread on Facebook

September 25: Visualizing the Private Bus Networks of Silicon Valley

Read about this project in the Wall Street Journal

September 12: Mapping the World's Friendships with Facebook

August 24: New Hurricane Tracker for The Weather Channel

August 21: Announcing Burningmap

July 25: Visualizing Nasdaq Data

July 3: Toner: New & Improved Custom b&w Cartography for Download and Embed

June 21: "Creepymaps" for Chernobyl Diaries visualizes Twitter Activity

June 15: Travel Planner Maps for The Weather Channel

May 30: Field Papers

March 22: maps.stamen.com

For more, please see recent entries from our studio blog, or see the maps or data visualization pages.

Stamen!

Since 2001, Stamen has developed a reputation for beautiful and technologically sophisticated projects in a diverse range of commercial and cultural settings. We work and play with a surprising and growing range of collaborators: news media, financial institutions, artists and architects, car manufacturers, design agencies, museums, technology firms, political action committees, and universities.

Find out more about who we are, or view Stamen client work and research projects. A selection of essays and works-in-progress may be found at our studio blog.

Read about Stamen in: The New York Times | Forbes | The Economist | The New York Times | CNN | The Guardian | Esquire and Contagious | Wired UK | Fast Company (2) (3)

Everything, everything:

MoMA Talk To Me

Toner Cartography

National Geographic The World iPad App

Prettymaps

MTV | MTV MTV Live Twitter visualizations

OneBayArea.org

Trees, Cabs and Crime in San Francisco

Map=Yes

Bing Maps Cartography

Polymaps.org

Nike Grid

Oakland Crimespotting

San Francisco Crimespotting

Cheerio maps

Walking Papers

CNN Home and Away

Cabspotting

One.org

Hope for Haiti

Dotspotting

Quova

Mondo Window

NBC Olympics 2010

Soft Cities

SOM Digital City 1

SOM Digital City 2

Trulia Snapshot

Nike Basketball Playoffs Twitter Visualization

Book.stamen.com

Oakland Crimespotting Heat Maps

MTV Movie Awards 2010

Flickr Clock

MSNBC Historical Hurricane Maps

SFMOMA Artscope

Cloudmade: Fresh

Cloudmade: Pale Dawn

Cloudmade: Midnight Commander

Adobe Kuler Community Pulse

Maps From Scratch

Faumaxion

Trace

Acconci

London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games

Data visualization, SOM, and the Transbay Tower

Acconci Story

SFMOMA Interactive companion

California Academy of Sciences

MSNBC Hurricane Tracker

Yahoo! Nikon Stunning Gallery

MySociety Travel Time Maps

Trulia Hindsight

GlobalVoicesOnline Maps

Digg Swarm / Digg Arc / Digg BigSpy / Digg Stack / Digg Pics

MoveOn.org

Hello Oakland

INdigital

Graffiti Archaeology

Global Business Network

USC Anneneberg Center for Communication

Mapping photos on Flickr.com with Mappr

Pro Choice America

Reblog

Root Markets

BMW

Quokka Sports

Adobe: Amgen Tour of California

In The News / Vox Delicii

Empty City

Macromedia: MX

Backchannel

DesignworksUSA

Schwab

Splatter