Paul Mijksenaar

Paul Mijksenaar

Wayfinding signs at Schiphol, designed by Mijksenaar

Paul Mijksenaar (born 1944, Amsterdam)^[1] is a designer of visual information and is founder and director of the international design bureau Mijksenaar, based in Amsterdam and New York. Mijksenaar is a specialist in creating visual information systems, such as wayfinding signage for railway stations and airports including New York's JFK and LaGuardia, New Jersey's Newark, and Amsterdam's Schiphol.^[2] His work for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was echoed in the set design for Steven Spielberg's film The Terminal.^[3]

Besides his practice he is also a professor in Visual Information Design at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He also writes a monthly article in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad about everyday problems and solving them using information design.

Major publications

• Paul Mijksenaar (1997). Visual Function: an Introduction to Information Design. 010 Publishers. ISBN 9064503036. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
• Paul Mijksenaar, Piet Westendorp (1999). Open here: the art of instructional design. Joost Elffers Books. ISBN 978-1556706172. Retrieved 21 December 2012.

References

1. Rijksenaar at the Stedelijk Museum
2. "Projects by category". 2009-05-18.
3. "Bureau Mijksenaar press releases 2002-2006". 2009-05-18.

External links

• Mijksenaar