Paul Mijksenaar
Paul Mijksenaar (born 1944) 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, LaGuardia and Newark, and Amsterdam's Schiphol.[1] 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.[2]
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.
[edit] Major publications
- Paul Mijksenaar (1997). Visual Function: an Introduction to Information Design. 010 Publishers. ISBN ISBN 9064503036. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-j7JcB2al7sC. Retrieved 30 August 2010.
