Irma Boom: My Manifesto for a Book

Graphic designer Irma Boom is the woman behind some of the most stunning books to have been published in the last decade. Watch the internationally acclaimed icon of Dutch design discuss her uncompromising design method. “If you don’t believe what I’m making then why should we make it at all.” When Boom began working on the design for the book ‘Weaving as Metaphor’ by artist Sheila Hicks, her surroundings – including her publisher in London and commissioner in New York – had a hard time understanding he