Stamen Design

Feb 5 in New York City: Eric Rodenbeck will be giving a talk at Parsons School of Design at The New School, titled "There’s a Crack in Everything: Gaps, Seams, and the Work of Knowing"

Free registration here: https://event.newschool.edu/ericrodenbeck

#NewYorkCity #NYC #ParsonsSchoolOfDesign #TheNewSchool #dataviz #design

Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck has two upcoming workshops at the Harvard Graduate School of Design:

"Re-imagining the Archive" and "AI Design for Ocean Solutions".

Read more here: https://stamen.com/two-upcoming-workshops-at-harvard-gsd/

Read how we visualized the complex structure of the Catholic Church in the US for their first official interactive diocesan map, available now on the blog at https://stamen.com/exploring-the-ecclesiastical-map-of-the-catholic-church-in-the-us/

#maps #usccb #design #cartography #data

Lately Stamen founder Eric Rodenbeck has been teaching at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Here is the studio report from the workshop he taught last spring, covering the use of AI in design, the nature of archives, and a pedagogy of iteration vs perfection: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/publication/re-imagining-the-archive/

A big congrats to our own Kelsey Taylor, who was just elected to the Board of Directors of the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS)! For the next two years, Kelsey will help guide the direction of one of the most important and beloved organizations in the mapping community. Way to go Kelsey!

https://nacis.org/our-society/leadership/

#NACIS #design #cartography #maps

In our latest blog post, we share our philosophy of dark mode basemaps. What are dark maps good for, and why might you need one? How do you design a dark mode map that is both beautiful and functional? All this and more, now on the blog at https://stamen.com/stamens-dark-map-materials/

#maps #darkmode #basemaps #design #cartography

What do we map in the shadows?

Our iconic Toner map style, now in dark mode! Read about how we developed "Toner Dark" and "Toner Blacklite" on the blog now: https://stamen.com/what-we-map-in-the-shadows.

Both styles are available from our friends at @stadiamaps@en.osm.town here: https://stadiamaps.com/explore-the-map.

#halloween #maps #DarkMode #toner #basemaps #design #cartography #OpenStreetMap

How is a brain like a mountain? Read "Brain Cartography: Mapping a place that everyone knows, but (almost) no one has ever been" here: https://stamen.com/brain-cartography-mapping-a-place-that-everyone-knows-but-almost-no-one-has-ever-been/

#design #cartography #ScienceCommunication #UCSF #BrainScience #NeuroSci

Stamen Lead Cartographer + Designer Kelsey Taylor ran a data viz and mapping workshop at the recent USGS Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center Summer Symposium in Urbana, IL.

Read more about the workshop at https://stamen.com/data-visualization-and-mapping-for-a-scientific-audience-with-usgs-midwest-climate-adaptation-science-centers-summer-symposium/

#dataviz #design #maps #science #climate #ClimateChange

Stamen recently collaborated with MetroMatch, a transit-first navigation tool focused on identifying destinations within walking distance of transit in U.S. cities. Read about how we redesigned their map for Washington, DC on the blog.

https://stamen.com/navigate-your-city-car-free-with-metromatch/

#maps #design #cartography #transit #metro #dcmetro #OpenStreetMap #WashingtonDC

This month OpenStreetMap turns 21!

To mark the occasion, we dug into our archives to finish part 3 of Stamen's personal history of OSM, covering the years 2016 to the present. Check it out on our blog, including links to part 1 and 2 of the series:

https://stamen.com/part-3-our-brilliant-friend-stamen-and-openstreetmap-through-the-years/

#OpenStreetMap #maps #design #cartography #opensource

Read our recap of presentations, inspiration, and upcoming projects from the 2025 #StateOfTheMap US conference last month in Boston on the blog: https://stamen.com/stamen-at-state-of-the-map-us-2025/.

#SOTMUS #SOTMUS2025 #OSM #OpenStreetMap #maps

The Getty Institute just launched a new online publication “Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City", which includes several map visualizations we created to explore the vast digitized collection of Ruscha’s photographs of LA over the years.

The entire publication is online, including videos, visualizations, zoomable images, and more: https://www.getty.edu/publications/ruscha/

#LosAngeles #EdRuscha #art #cartography #maps #GettyMuseum #GettyInstitute #LA #OpenAccess

Stamen Lead Design Technologist Eric Brelsford presenting about Map Stack Stack at #SOTMUS today:

https://mapstackstack.stamen.com

#openstreetmap #SOTMUS2025