Stephan Van Dam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Stephan Van Dam

Cartographer and architect

Date of Birth: 02-Apr-1959

Place of Birth: Germany

Profession: cartographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.