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Irma Boom

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Walker’s riddles

Issue 99, Autumn 2019

Review

Tim Walker’s photographs are dispatches from a non-parallel universe. His images convey a glittering otherness…

Advice from a mentor you may never meet

Issue 94, Summer 2017

Feature

The ethos behind the Hall of Femmes series is to pass down stories, advice and experiences to a new generation of female art directors and designers

‘I compare my work to architecture. I don’t build villas, I build social housing. The books are industrially made and they need to be made very well. I am all for industrial production. I hate one-offs. On one book you can do anything, but if you do a print run, that is a challenge. It’s never art. Never, never, never.’

A monument made of money

Issue 24, Spring 1997

Review

It came in a cardboard box of about a cubic foot, containing a smaller, rather…

Clarity and contradiction

Issue 13, Summer 1994

Feature

Irma Boom’s work is lucid yet challenging. It upsets her colleagues, while pleasing her clients.

Recent blog posts about Irma Boom

Books received #15

9 August 2015
Graphic design, Information design, Photography, Visual culture

Data Design; Mucho’s Sonia Delaunay catalogue; Alvin Langdon Coburn; and Irma Boom explores the cosmos with Olafur Eliasson

Here are a few more books that caught our attention in recent weeks. A selection…

Five strategies tabled in Eindhoven

27 October 2014
Critical path, Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture

Van Abbemuseum throws new light on Jan van Toorn’s critical design practice

Homage exhibitions are inherently celebratory, writes Francisco Laranjo. However ‘Staging the Message: The Open Work…

The Bloomsbury set

24 October 2012
Book design, Graphic design, Reviews, Typography

De Bondt, Boom, Burrill, Butterick, Garland, Kubel, Scher and many more make Typo London 2012 a highly ‘Social’ affair. No question about it.

Typo London commenced with graphic designer Sara De Bondt’s fittingly understated introduction, writes Sarah Snaith…

Brit Insurance Design Awards

18 January 2011
Awards madness, Book design, Graphic design, Music design, New media, Technology, Visual culture

Bantjes, Shandy, Flipboard and E.Chromi make the (long) shortlist

London’s Design Museum announced the shortlist for this year’s Brit Insurance Design awards this morning…