Paul 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 City. 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
- ^ Rijksenaar at the Stedelijk Museum
- ^ "Projects by category". 2009-05-18.
- ^ "Bureau Mijksenaar press releases 2002-2006". 2009-05-18.
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