Wrapping up a very busy 2025

There was a lot to do this year, but most of it happened behind the scenes. That's why we think a brief summary is in order.

Our biggest project of 2025 was updating our product portfolio with three new wall art options for each map. This task had many expected, as well as unforeseen challenges, and took more time than we had anticipated. However, we are quite happy with the result. Thanks to our persistence, we can now offer all of our river basin maps in three ready-to-hang formats with free shipping anywhere in the world.

Another significant undertaking was creating Etsy listings for most of the products found in the Map Shop. Long-time followers may remember that nine years ago this business started with an Etsy shop where Robert sold digital maps. When we switched to selling paper prints, we had to close it down because we couldn't work on both. Now, all of our river basin maps can be found on Etsy again, which has made some of our old customers really happy. We've received several messages saying that they are glad to see us selling again on the platform :)

Other areas we tried to focus on this year was our product and SEO optimization to make it easier to find us through searches, translations to make our maps and collaborations available to non-English speakers, and laying the groundwork for wholesale.

While the number of collaborations somewhat stagnated this year, some projects are definitely worth mentioning:

• Since last month you can find our globe and US river basin map at Disney's EPCOT Educational Theme Park in Florida. (We were promised to be sent some pictures soon, so stay tuned!)
• The lovely people at Nature Conservancy rocked our Africa T-shirts at their Africa Freshwater meeting in Kenya earlier this year
• American Dendrite had its world premiere at the Lighthouse International Film Festival
• We also continued our work with Living River Colorado and with Camille de Toledo and the team of scientists behind 'Vers une Internationale des Rivières et Autres Éléments de la Nature'.

Looking forward to next year's exciting projects!

But first, we are saying goodbye to this year with a vacation. We said goodbye to the sun a few days ago, now it's time to get cozy and hibernate for a few weeks before starting anything new.

(Pictured: Robert is enjoying the last rays of the sun before it disappears behind the mountains, not to return until mid-January.)