In navigating their way around Schiphol Airport, over 50 million travellers a year rely on the visual language of Paul Mijksenaar. The confidence of visitors at other airports - including those in Aruba, Rotterdam, Eindhoven, New York, Sardinia, Abu Dhabi and, in the near future, Washington, Athens and Frankfurt - is also bolstered by elements of this recognizable language.

Over the past 25 years, Mijksenaar and his employees in Amsterdam and New York have developed a remarkably extensive visual language consisting of colours, planes, arrows, maps and dozens of symbols that work together to form a unique, extremely varied yet consistently clear visual world - an environment instantly recognizable even to the traveller who catches only a partial glimpse of the information provided.