Max Bruinsma (born 1956) is a Dutch design critic, editor, curator, and educator.
Bruinsma has contributed to many other art and design publications including ID, Blueprint, The AIGA Journal, Étappes, Form, Mediamatic and Metropolis M, published the book Deep Sites – Intelligent Innovation in Contemporary Webdesign with Thames & Hudson in 2003 and has been the Editor of several books.
The Pierre Bayle Prize for design criticism was awarded to Bruinsma in 2005.
He was Core Tutor at the Graphic design Masters program at St. Joost Academy of the Arts (2010–14) and a Core Tutor and Thesis Advisor for MIARD (Masters Interior Architecture - Research and Design) at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2013–19).
Since 2017 he is also editor of the yearly video portraits of NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Awards, Zürich, Switzerland.