Dutch graphic designer Irma Boom has designed over 300 books and is generally regarded as an artist in her field. Considering all aspects of the architecture of the book, including its cover, spine, pages, ink, color, surface, texture and size, as sites for reinvention, she is always experimental and challenges how we understand the printed page.
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Inaugurated on April 1, 2020, Design in Dialogue is a series of online interviews hosted alternately by curator and historian Glenn Adamson and designer Stephen Burks. Conversations are held on Zoom every Wednesdays for 1 hour, beginning at 11am Eastern Time, including a participatory Q&A. Please join leading voices from the field — designers, makers, critics, and curators — as they discuss their work and ideas.