Nationality American Website www.vandam.com | Name Stephan Dam | |
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Born April 2, 1959 (age 64) ( 1959-04-02 ) Germany Occupation Cartographer
Graphic Designer
Information Architect
Publisher Awards Gold, Industrial Design Society of America, 1986
ID Magazine, Honorable Mention, 1989
AIGA, 1997 | ||
Education Parsons School of Design | ||
Stephan Van Dam (born April 2, 1959) is a cartographer, graphic designer and information architect. He is the president, principal and creative director of New York–based VanDam, Inc. Van Dam holds several patents in the field of paper engineering and origami map folding. Twenty-six of his maps are in the permanent Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
Van Dam presented Understanding Maps at the original TED (conference) in 2002.
He has received awards for his work from the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the editors of ID Magazine.
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