Graphic Designer;Founder of Irma Boom Office
Based in Amsterdam, Irma Boom is one of the most well known names in the field of graphic designspecialising in making books. Her most famous work was the 2,136-page book SHV Think Book 1996-1896, celebrating 100 years of SHV. It was commissioned by SHV Holdings in Utrecht and published in both English and Chinese.
She founded Irma Boom office in 1991 and it works both nationally and internationally across both thecultural and commercial sectors. Its clients include the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Paul Fentener vanVlissingen (1990-2006), Inside Outside, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Zumtobel, Ferrari,Vitra International, NAi Publishers, United Nations, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum. Aga Khan Foundation (Geneva), Camper (Majorca), Yale Press London/Bard Graduate Centre (New York) and the Prince Claus Fund.
Prior to founding the Irma Boom office she worked for five years at the Dutch Government Publishing and Printing Office in The Hague. Since 1992 Boom has been a critic at Yale University and gives lectures and workshops world wide. She has been the recipient of many awards for her book designs and was the youngest ever Laureate to receive the prestigious Gutenberg prize for her complete oeuvre.
She has been asked to judge competitions and sit on such committees as the Member Supervisory Board Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and the Member Board Premsela Foundation, Amsterdam. She recently won the 2007 Gold Medaille, Sch?nste Bücher Aller Welt, Leipzig (Sheila Hicks, Weaving as Metaphor), the 2007 Red Dot Award, Best of the Best (Sheila Hicks, Weaving as Metaphor), the 2008 CPNB Prize (Inside Outside/Petra Blaisse) and the 2008 CPNB Prize (Sur Palce, Fortis Art Collection).
