Stephan Van Dam | |
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Born | Germany | April 2, 1959
Nationality | American |
Education | Parsons School of Design, 1981 Harvard Business Club, 1985 School of Visual Arts, 1996 |
Occupation(s) | Cartographer Graphic Designer Information Architect Publisher |
Awards | Gold, Industrial Design Society of America, 1986 ID Magazine, Honorable Mention, 1989 AIGA, 1997 |
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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. [1] 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). [2]
Van Dam presented Understanding Maps at the original TED (conference) in 2002.[ citation needed]
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[ citation needed].