‘A book is fixed information,’ says Boom. ‘Online, everything is in flux.’
Publisher Barbera van Kooij (left) and graphic designer Irma Boom in Boom’s Amsterdam studio with some of their books, including the recent, Rembrandt x Rijksmuseum.
The book makers
Designer Irma Boom and publisher Barbera van Kooij are the redoubtable duo behind the printed output of Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. By John L. Walters. Photographs by Robert Billington
Publisher Barbera van Kooij (left) and graphic designer Irma Boom in Boom’s Amsterdam studio with some of their books, including the recent, Rembrandt x Rijksmuseum.