By Editor Design.nl / 28-05-2009

The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich invited Irma Boom to design the book “Every Thing Design”, about the collections of the museum. The result is a true design object, which invites readers on a journey of discovery, with more than 800 pages on the important holdings of the museum's poster, design, applied art, and graphics Collections.

On the occasion of this collaboration, the museum organised an exhibition of Irma Boom’s work in its Plakatraum that provides insight into her wide-ranging experimental work and such specific aspects of it as the structure of the books, her approach to color, and the relationship of content and typography. She herself says of her work: “I honour the traditional book but do not want to stop there. My ambition is to develop the significance and the limits of the  book. Structures that come from new media, the way text and images are treated, have given the  book a new impulse. It is important to experiment and not to be afraid sometimes to create utter  failures; the book can keep its vitality. There is a lot to explore in a technical way and, even more  importantly, in terms of content and form.”  

Irma Boom – Book Design
Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / Museum of Design Zürich
3 April to 19 July 2009

Main image: Irma Boom, Spines of books, Photography: Irma Boom 
Image: Irma Boom, Petra Blaisse, Inside/Outside, Movements, 2000, Photography: Irma Boom 
Image: Irma Boom, Gutenberg Galaxie, 2002, Photography: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Regula Bearth © ZHdK 
Portrait Irma Boom, Photography: Tejo Krijgsman 

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