demap Damien Demaj Strathdale Victoria 3550 Australia tel: +61 408 856 506 email: Skype: damiendemaj Demap website

Damien Demaj is a freelance cartographer and cartographic design consultant. His creativity and vision are the driving force behind demap, his cartographic design company. Damien graduated from RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Geomatics (Cartography/GIS) and has been actively involved in cartographic publishing for the past 11 years.  He is currently a director on the board of the IMTA (Asia Pacific) and a member of the North American Cartographic Society and British Cartographic Society. Damien established demap in 2001 and his artistic, imaginative, and technical background in cartography and GIS has seen the enterprise evolve into a highly respected cartographic company. He began his career as a cartographer for Explore Australia Publishing (Penguin), specializing in AutoCAD map and cartographic map design and production for 4 years. Subsequently he specialised in using MapInfo as a GIS technician at MWH (Montgomery Watson Harza), one of Melbourne’s leading storm water and waste water infrastructure data capture companies. After 12 months at MWH Damien took on the role of cartographic project leader for publishers DK (Dorling Kindersley) in London where he managed a series of secondary geography textbooks for Prentice Hall, as well as being heavily involved in DK’s World Atlas mapping projects. Most recently Damien has held the position of Chief Cartographic Consultant for the Macmillan Primary Atlas, and then for the Millennium House production, Earth, the world’s largest atlas.