Irma Boom is known as the “Queen of Books,” with creating well over 300 bold projects that make her readers think outside the box. Irma’s books are physically unconventional and her content within the book also. She enjoys experimenting with different designs that leave the world feeling challenged and engaged. Irma Boom is the youngest recipient to receive the Gutenberg Prize which “recognizes outstanding service and the advancement of the book arts”. Irma Boom also has her own showcasing at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands called Irma Booms Archive and a permanent collection of books at MoMA.

Irma Boom is Dutch graphic designer who is known for her creativity in her book making. Irma Boom’s books vary in design, all intriguing to the eye. Boom’s variety includes particular thoughts even to the how the edges of the books are formed. She also may transform the written content and have it begin with huge letters and slowly decrease in size. In one of her books,” The Road Not Taken,” she used different scents like beef bouillon and incorporated it with the ink used to write the book. Another cool development she created is the “fat book” which is a two inch book and double that in thickness. All of Irma Boom’s enhancement are known to have a logic behind them. Nothing she does is “just because”. They say that “Every little detail is analyzed to maximize its engagement potential in contrast to its digital counterparts. Irma Boom makes no mistakes!

One of Irma’s quotes that she uses to explain her books are, “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. It’s never art. Never, never, never.”