Stamen Design

09/25/2026

09/04/2026

Just published: our recap of the 2026 State of the Map US conference. In this post Lead Cartographer Alan McConchie explores some results from our Cartographic Tooling Census & shares highlights from his talk about mapping totem poles in
. https://stamen.com/stamen-at-state-of-the-map-us-2026/

09/01/2026

Eric gave the keynote at this year's Data Visualization Society meeting, and the video is live.

Eric Rodenbeck—There’s a Crack in Everything: Gaps, Seams, and the ...

07/10/2026

Our co-authored article with longtime partners UCSF Health about the “UCSF Health Atlas” is available now in The Journal of Medical Internet Research! Check it out at https://www.jmir.org/2026/1/e89065

05/22/2026

New work: Mapping curb data with the City of Boston’s new Curb Lab!

Read more on the blog (link in bio)

05/19/2026

Stamen founder and CEO will be giving the keynote at the conference next month!

The conference is fully virtual this year. Learn more at or get tickets at sta.mn/v5p

05/07/2026

We want to hear about your map tools!

Hey designers, developers, cartographers, or anyone who works with maps: we want to know what tools you use to wrangle geospatial data, design maps online, or to collaborate with people who do. We extended the deadline to May 15 for Stamen’s Cartographic Tooling Survey, please take a few minutes to fill it out!

Visit sta.mn/fgb or bit.ly/carto-census

05/06/2026

Check out Eric's newest article on AI as a design medium, published by Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Eric Rodenbeck, lecturer at the Harvard GSD, examines AI as a design medium that can reshape how designers think and produce knowledge.

04/17/2026

Submissions accepted until May 1!