Irma Boom is a book designer and educator known for her radical and experimental approach to the book as an object. She has designed and edited over 300 books, many of which challenge traditional conventions of form, structure, and content. Boom is internationally recognized for her artistic autonomy and conceptual rigor. Since 1992, she has been a senior critic in graphic design at Yale University School of Art and regularly lectures and leads workshops around the world. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. At the University of Amsterdam her complete oeuvre and related documents is collected ongoingly as part of the Living Archive. Boom is the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious Gutenberg Prize for her lifetime achievements in book design. In 2014, she was awarded the Johannes Vermeer Award—the Dutch state prize for the arts—by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.