page_title: Stephan Van Dam
hierarchical_section_title: Stephan Van Dam
caption_attribution_description: English: Van Dam in August of 2010
context_page_description: Stephan Van Dam 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.
  Van Dam presented Understanding Maps at the original TED in 2002.
  He has received awards for his work from the Industrial Designers Society of America, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the editors of ID Magazine.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Van Dam in August 2010
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