Lives and works in San Francisco.
He founded the Stamen Design, where he is also creative director, in 2001. Since then, he has been working to extend the boundaries of online media and live information visualization. Rodenbeck led the interactive storytelling and data-driven narrative effort at Quokka Sports, illustrated and designed at Wired Magazine and Wired Books, and was a co-founder of the design collective Umwow. He is a sought-after speaker and has spoken at Yale University, Columbia University, multiple O'Reilly technology conferences, Esther Dyson's PC Forum, OFF in Barcelona, Lift in Jeju, South Korea, and South by Southwest, among others. He was a judge in the Smithsonian's National Design Awards in 2012. He studied architecture at Cooper Union, New York City, and received a B.A. in the History and Philosophy of Technology from The New School for Social Research. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, and he sits on the Board of Directors of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and the Grey Area Foundation for the Arts.