Irma Boom

Book Design

The Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom is one of the most well-known contemporary book designers. With the use of unfamiliar formats, materials, colors, structures, and typography she makes the book into a visual and haptic experience.

About the designer

Irma Boom studied at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede, and in 1991 she established her own office in Amsterdam. Among her most important clients are the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, the Prince Claus Fund, OMA / Rem Koolhaas, the United Nations, Vitra International and Zumtobel. She has been a guest critic at Yale University since 1992 and lectures all over the world. Her books have been shown at numerous international exhibitions and are also represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Among other awards, in 2001 she received the Gutenberg Prize for her complete work. The museum is showing a selection of her works in the context of her designing the book "Every Thing Design" about the collections of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.