1960 Born in Lochem, the Netherlands. 1979 Enrols at the AKI School of Fine Art in Enscheden 1985 After graduation, she joins the Dutch government publishing and printing office in The Hague as a designer and works there for five years. 1991 Opens the Irma Boom Office in Amsterdam and begins a five year project to design a book commemorating the centenary of the Dutch conglomerate SHV. 1992 Starts teaching at Yale in the US. 1993 Designs a series of Butterflies stamps for the Dutch PTT. 1996 Publication of the SHV centenary book on which Boom has worked for five years. The book has 2,136 pages but no page numbers or index. 1998 Begins a two year stint as a tutor at the Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht and stages a solo exhibition – Irma Boom on her Books – at the Stroom Centre in The Hague. Designs the Workspirit book for Vitra, the Swiss office furniture group. Appointed to the advisory committee for the Dutch ministry of finance. 2001 Stages a solo exhibition – Boom Beyond Books – at the Bilbiothèque Nationale de France in Paris. Wins the Gutenberg Prize. 2003 Completes work on the design of an art book for Aernout Mik and a monograph of her own work Gutenberg Galaxie. 2004 Designs the book False Flat - Why is Dutch design so good? for the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

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