Irma Boom

Irma boom is a Dutch graphic designer who’s forte is book production, she is widely credited with making some of the most beautiful books of modern time, her eye for visually engaging and remarkable composition means that ‘Reading one of her books is like embarking on a visual adventure’ and the book becomes a piece of timeless art in itself. She devoted 5 years work to the creation of a book celebrating the Dutch conglomerate(1) SHV’s 10 year anniversary, it contained 2,136 page, doesn't contain page numbers or an index and is all full bleed and full colour, having managed to view a good amount of the pages it is intriguing to see how she handled the design of such a task, every single page is completely different which adds endless engagement and each composition works perfectly in its own way. Irma Boom is an important designer to me as she showed me the possibility of turning regular graphic outcomes into actual attractive pieces of visual design and to consider every aspect of the actual output when designing and i can learn a lot from her compositions and techniques as she creates perfectly balanced spreads.

(1) Design Museum, Unknown Date http://designmuseum.org/design/irma-boom Paragraph 5

Photo: SHV book