Stephan Van Dam

Stephan Van Dam
Van Dam in August 2010
Born (1959-04-02) April 2, 1959
Germany
Nationality American
Education Parsons School of Design, 1981
Harvard Business Club, 1985
School of Visual Arts, 1996
Occupation Cartographer
Graphic Designer
Information Architect
Publisher
Awards Gold, Industrial Design Society of America, 1986
ID Magazine, Honorable Mention, 1989
AIGA, 1997
Website www.vandam.com

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.

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.

Notes

  1. ↑ "About: Stephan Van Dam". VanDam, Inc. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Artist: Stephan Van Dam". MoMA Design Collection. Retrieved September 28, 2010.

References

  • "COMINGS AND GOINGS; New Bilingual Maps For Visitors to Chinese Cities". The New York Times. October 26, 2008.
  • "Style Makers; Stephan Van Dam, Map Publisher". The New York Times. December 24, 1989.
  • "'Sexy' iPad Maps: A Designer's Interactive New York Streetscapes". The Atlantic. August 4, 2011.

Further reading

  • Mapping New York Black Dog Publishing ISBN 978-1-906155-82-7
  • Steven Heller The Education of a Design Entrepreneur Allworth Press ISBN 1-58115-221-3
  • Nigel Homes The Best in Diagrammatic Graphics Rotovision SA 1993 ISBN 4-89737-067-1
  • Keizo Matsui Three Dimensional Graphics Rikuyo-sha Publishing, Inc. ISBN 2-88046-192-8
  • ALEHOP, Dissenys, Enginys i Remeis Electa ISBN 84-8156-349-8
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