irma boom

A black book cover with a white image of a potato peeler designed by Irma Boom

Christian Brändle, Glenn Adamson, Verena Formanek “Every Thing Design: The Collections of the Museum of Design Zürich”, 2009. Book designed by Irma Boom.

series of editorials on prominent designers

irma boom creates books, or more accurately, “builds” them like an architect. this won her the fame of one of the world’s most inventive and experimental book designers, as well as commissions from rem koolhaas, ferrari and the un.

today irma is an academy fellow at the yale university school of art and her works are housed in collections from the centre pompidou in paris to moma in new york.

Irma Boom looking into camera, wearing black

Irma Boom. © Chamber gallery

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The Architecture of the Book, written and designed by Irma Boom. Red cover with white letters