Education
Parsons The New School for Design. School of Visual Arts.
Parsons The New School for Design. School of Visual Arts.
He is the president, principal and creative director of New York–based VanDam, Incorporated. 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.