27 Facts About Irma Boom

Irma Boom has been noted as the youngest recipient of the Gutenberg Prize, an award recognizing outstanding services to the advancement of the book arts.

Irma Boom had walked into a lecture on book design, and so profound was its impact that it inspired her to drop painting and join the graphic design department.

Irma Boom had applied to intern at Total Design in Amsterdam, where Wim Crouwel was director, but had been rejected by his colleagues for mixing too many typefaces.

Irma Boom's work was far too experimental for a firm that was used to strict typographic convention.

Irma Boom experienced her first job as both an editor and designer during her time at the Dutch Government Publishing and Printing Office in The Hague.

Irma Boom structured the book in a Japanese style binding and had text crossing multiple pages with printed folds and translucent paper.

Irma Boom continued to tackle projects nationally and internationally in both the cultural and commercial sectors.

Irma Boom had tutored at Jan van Eyck Academie, Masstricht in the Netherlands between 1998 and 2000.

Irma Boom's work has been shown at numerous international exhibitions, including her own solo exhibition in Amsterdam in 2011.

Irma Boom had been a member of the Supervisory Board Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam between 2004 and 2011 and has been a member of the board Premsela Foundation, Amsterdam since 2008.

Irma Boom's books take on an architectural form and she views them as a unique medium for delivery of information.

Irma Boom considers the entire landscape of the book including the edges.

From typography to material, every detail Irma Boom applies to her projects possesses an underlying logic.

Irma Boom makes use of various finishing in her printed material such as embossing and die cuts.

Scent is another unusual feature Irma Boom has utilized in her book design.

Irma Boom introduced the idea of a 'fat book'; that is, books that are remarkably thick.

Irma Boom has received extensive media coverage of her work, and Alice Rawsthorn writing for the New York Times profiled her in 2010.

Irma Boom has designed most of her books with creative freedom in her designs.

Irma Boom designed a book titled Beautiful Ugly by Sarah Nuttall, with an olive-green colored cover and no pictures or text.

Irma Boom rejected a request to have the artists work on the cover stating that Hicks is an interesting artist who deserves a bigger audience, therefore is in need of a more abstract cover.

For Chanel's 2013 exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Irma Boom created a book filled with solid white, textural pages.

The Irma Boom book comes in a miniature and an XXL edition.

Irma Boom had often dreamed of publishing at such a scale but the idea had as per usual been too unconventional and alarming to publishers.

Irma Boom's miniature is simply a model of her design process.

Irma Boom is particular in acting roles while taking on projects:.

Irma Boom maintains that books are a collaborative effort, requiring trust and freedom between the commissioner and the designer.

Irma Boom has over 50 awards and honors and nominations received between 1989 and the present.