Irma Boom

In 1996, Boom was commissioned by Paul Fentener van Vlissingen to design and compile the SHV Think Book, a design icon marking the centenary of the company SHV. She is also celebrated for the mini-catalogue she made of her own work, titled Irma Boom, Biography in Books. 

But Irma Boom does much more. She also designs house styles and logos, most recently for the Rijksmuseum, as well as coins. Her clients include OMA, Chanel, Ferrari, the Prins Claus Fonds and artists. The University of Amsterdam’s Special Collections division collects Boom's living archive. The MoMA in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris and other museums have added her books to their collections. 

She has won many international awards, including the important Gutenberg-Preis (for extraordinary achievement in printmaking) and, in 2014, the Netherlands’ national prize for the arts, the Johannes Vermeer Prijs. Irma Boom has been associated with Yale University in the United States since 1992.