Nationality American Website www.vandam.com | Name Stephan Dam | |
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Born April 2, 1959 (age 65) ( 1959-04-02 ) Germany Occupation CartographerGraphic DesignerInformation ArchitectPublisher Awards Gold, Industrial Design Society of America, 1986ID Magazine, Honorable Mention, 1989AIGA, 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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