Irma Boom
Subtitle: the architecture of the book : books in reverse chronological order, 2013-1986, with comments here and there
By: [concept and design, Irma Boom ; introduction, Rem Koolhaas ; text, Mathieu Lommen ; text here and there, Irma Boom ; translation, John A. Lane ; final editing, Beth O'Brien]
Contributors: Lommen, Mathieu, writer of added text; Koolhaas, Rem, writer of introduction; Lane, John A., 1955- translator; O'Brien, Beth, editor; Universiteit van Amsterdam. Bibliotheek. Bijzondere Collecties
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Lecturis
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Eindhoven, Netherlands]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 799
ISBN-13: 9789462260351
Subjects: Exhibitions; Book designers; Book design
Other titles: Architecture of the book; Boom
Work titles: Irma Boom, biography in books
Description: Irma Boom has become one of the most widely renowned book designers in the world today. Her often ingenious solutions to individual book productions have gained her international fame and her work is now collected by many leading museums. Besides book designs she also creates corporate identities, postage stamps and posters. The Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam Library honoured Irma Boom with a major retrospective exhibition of her work. To accompany this exhibition she produced a catalogue. This miniature book contains a complete overview of her work, now re-printed in a slightly bigger version and with more pages.
Notes: "A revised and updated version of 'Irma Boom: Biography in Books' ... First published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Irma Boom: Biography in Books' held at the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam, 4 June-3 October, 2010'"--Page 5.

Issued in a cardboard case (16 x 12 x 3 cm).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 746-793).
Table of contents: title: Shared dilemmas / Rem Koolhaas; title: Living archive / Matthieu Lommen; title: The survival of the book or The renaissance of the book / Irma Boom.