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.

A fragment of “De Rijp/Kunst op Kamers” book, 2008. Designed by Irma Boom and Cees Straus.

A fragment of De Rijp/Kunst op Kamers book, 2008. Eye-like colored shapes foating in space
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stay close to your own ideas. —irma boom

A page from Waterweaver: a chronicle of rivers by Roca Jose, Alejandro Martin designed by Irma Boom

Roca Jose, Alejandro Martin“Waterweavers: a chronicle of rivers”, 2014. Book designed by Irma Boom.

 

no print

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

A page in the catalogue for Inside / Outside exhibition, 2000. Book designed by Irma Boom.

Sheila Hicks, Weaving as Metaphor, 2006. Book designed by Irma Boom

Sheila Hicks “Weaving as Metaphor”, 2006. Book designed by Irma Boom.

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editor-in-chief
diana kasay

editor
zhdan philippov

creative director
anton herasymenko

layout designer and art director
stas aki

issue designer
vasily podryadchikov

text author
marusya gorina

content manager
tsvetelina miteva

 

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