Door het enorme formaat toont de XXL-uitgave ook al hetgeen in het miniatuurboekje verborgen blijft en daarmee het specifieke van de ontwerpen. Meer nog dan de details is dat een imponerend scala van eigenzinnige, sterke en consequent doorgevoerde ontwerpkeuzen. Opgenomen in beide uitgaven is ook een specimen uit een onlangs voor Chanel ontworpen boek dat geheel in preegdruk werd uitgevoerd.
In het miniboekje bestaat het beeld uit slechts een aantal punten, in het XXL-boek zijn het er honderden. Irma Boom, The Architecture of the Book (limited XXL edition, signed and numbered). Irma Boom, Mathieu Lommen en Rem Koolhaas (introduction). 800 pages, 345 x 455 x 58 mm, four colour offset printed (plus foil stamping and embossing) on Munken Polar 120 g/m2, thread sewn in leatherette binding, thread sewn, red painted paper edges, dust cover and packaged in silk screen printed box.Condition: mint condition, still in original shrink wrap plastic film. The well known minibook of Irma Boom's work in a spectacular XXL version. This XXL edition was published in a limited edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. Irma Boom (1960) is a graphic designer specialising in book design.
In 2010, The New York Times described her as probably the finest book designer of our time. The comment was prompted by the publication in that year of a miniature book Biography in Books featuring an overview of her book designs. Coinciding with the exhibition Irma Boom: lArchitecture du livre 20131986 at the Institut Néerlandais in Paris, from 17 September to 15 December 2013, Lecturis Publishing and The Special Collections department of the University of Amsterdam are publishing a significantly revised and updated reprint of the Irma Boom monograph. It includes a new introduction by Rem Koolhaas, who also designed the type font on the cover. Thanks to its huge format, the XXL edition also shows what remains hidden in the miniature book, revealing the specific elements of the design. More than just the details alone, this shows an impressive range of individual, confident and consistently applied design choices. Both editions also include a specimen from a book recently designed for Chanel, the pages of which are blind embossed throughout. In the miniature book, the images consist of just a few points, in the XXL edition, there are hundreds. The item "Irma Boom, The Architecture of the Book limited XXL edition signed and numbered" is in sale since Tuesday, November 29, 2016. This item is in the category "Boeken, strips, tijdschriften\Verzamelingen". The seller is "sebab1" and is located in Rotterdam. This item can be shipped worldwide.