a book that smells

Creating books where content and form are closely related is very important to Boom. She aims to inspire discovery and interaction. Scent is one of the unusual features Boom utilized in one of her book designs, in collaboration with an artist. Her conceptual book design for The Road Not Taken with artist Job Koelewijn has 718 pages printed using ink mixed with a base of bouillon. Coffee filter paper is another unusual material choice that Boom used for a book about water in Scotland.

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Boom also makes use of various finishings in her printed material such as embossing and die cuts. In her book for Chanel in 2013, Chanel N ͦ5, Boom printed an entire 300 page book without ink, using only embossed texts and images to create a narrative of the creation of the perfume Chanel N ͦ5. The book is completely white and is housed in a black box. The concept behind the book was inspired by the smell of picking rose leaves in the south of France. The book has almost no visibility yet the book is very present.

A page in the catalogue for Inside/Outside exhibition. White letters embossed on a white background
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