Paul Mijksenaar (born 1944,Amsterdam)[1] is a designer of visual information and founder and director of the international design Bureau Mijksenaar, based inAmsterdam andNew York City. In 1965, he graduated from the Institute for Applied Arts Education Amsterdam (IvKNO, later theGerrit Rietveld Academie) in product design. He started off as a freelance product designer in 1966, then as a senior designer and team leader for the Associatie voor Total Design NV (or Total Design) in 1978 before establishing Bureau Mijksenaar in 1986.[2]
Mijksenaar is a specialist in creating visual information systems, such as wayfinding signage for railway stations and airports including New York'sJFK andLaGuardia, New Jersey'sNewark, and Amsterdam'sSchiphol.[3] His work for thePort Authority of New York and New Jersey was echoed in the set design forSteven Spielberg's filmThe Terminal.[4]
Besides his practice he is also a professor in VisualInformation Design at the faculty ofIndustrial Design Engineering at theDelft University of Technology in theNetherlands. He also writes a monthly article in the Dutch newspaperNRC Handelsblad about everyday problems and solving them using information design.
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