(Yale University Press, 2006)
Designed by Irma Boom
“AM: How would you sketch the future of the book?
IB: The book has a great future. In the statement in my little red book [Irma Boom: The Architecture of the Book] I talk about the renaissance of the book. It is already happening now. …At a recent event, Massimo Vignelli claimed ‘The book is dead’. …
Anne Miltenburg, “Reputations: Irma Boom“, Eye Magazine (Summer 2014). From
I was shocked when Massimo repeated that sentence, I read it everywhere. But the printed book does not need any defender. It has survived 600 years or so. The way information spreads depends on the inventions of that time; paintings have survived, photos, and the book is another form.
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