Stephan Van Dam
Cartographer and architect (born 1959)
About Stephan Van Dam
Born 1959. Stephan Van Dam is an American cartographer, designer, graphic designer and information architect.
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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Who is Stephan Van Dam?
Cartographer and architect (born 1959)
When was Stephan Van Dam born?
Stephan Van Dam was born on 2 April 1959 in Germany.
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Stephan Van Dam is a cartographer, designer, graphic designer and information architect.
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Stephan Van Dam is American.
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