![]() Misfits has an outstanding shape too, which spoke to me immediately. The experience of these two books would have been the same if they both had been read on a computer.īoom handling her smallest and biggest book.Īnother book made by Boom is Misfits. While the first one is hard to hold because of the weight, the other one is hard to hold because there’s only a small surface to hold on to. The experience of handling these two ‘objects’ are completely different. To illustrate this, Boom has prove she could as much make a book that is 170 x 225 x 113mm height and weighs 3.5kg, than a book smaller than the tip of your pinkie. The shape, weight, and size become important aspects of the design because these aspects influence the experience of reading the book just like the content does. She doesn’t treat books as simple PdFs prints, but rather as architectonic objects. Boom is a Dutch ‘bookmaker’, as she calls herself, who challenges the traditional formats of books. However, at the same time as making my own book, I did a research on a book designed by Irma Boom. When I started to make a book myself, I focused on the content, seeing the design as something ‘to worry about later’ or even, something ‘not to think about too much at all’. I’ve always seen books as a medium for information, as a source of knowledge, and because of that, I thought that the content was the most important part of a book. It is not that I loved books because of the way they looked, but rather because of the knowledge that they represent. Looking at books, or preferably full bookshelves, has always made me happy. ![]()
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