Irma Boom

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Irma Boom (Lochem, The Netherlands, December 15, 1960 is an Amsterdam-based graphic designer specializing in book making.

For five years she worked (editing and concept/design) on the 2136-page SHV Think Book 1996-1896 commissioned by SHV Holdings in Utrecht. The Think Book was published in English and Chinese.

Irma Boom studied graphic design at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede. After graduating she worked for five years at the Dutch Government Publishing and Printing Office in The Hague. In 1991 she founded Irma Boom Office, which works nationally and internationally in both the cultural and commercial sectors. Clients include the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Paul Fentener van Vlissingen (1941-2006), Inside Outside, Museum, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Zumtobel, Ferrari, Vitra International, NAi Publishers, United Nations and OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Koninklijke Tichelaar, and Camper.

Since 1992 Boom has been a critic at Yale University in the US and gives lectures and workshops worldwide. She has been the recipient of many awards for her book designs and was the youngest-ever laureate to receive the prestigious Gutenberg prize for her complete oeuvre.

In 2004 Boom and Nicole Ex, art historian, founded BASED ON, a company that develops wallpapers out of the color diagrams. BASED ON wallpaper is not only based on art but also on nature. BASED ON nature features images of threatened UNESCO Natural Heritage sites.

Her design for ‘Weaving as Metaphor’ by American artist Sheila Hicks was rewarded as 'The Most Beautiful Book in the World’ at the Leipzig Book Fair.

[edit] References

• Eye, No. 13, Vol. 4, edited by Rick Poynor, Emap Architecture, Summer 1994.

[edit] See also

• First Things First 2000 manifesto
• Emigre 51: First Things First, 1999. [1]

[edit] External links

• Irma Boom Office
• Irma Boom at the Design Museum London