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This is Design Matters with Debbie Milman from design observer.com.

On this program, Debbie Milman talks with Irma Boom about her career

and about the art and craft of her celebrated book designs.

What I make is always very intrinsic.

Solution is already in the assignment.

And I must say, you say all these wonderful words,

but I think I'm an extremely bad

designer what here's Debbie Milman erma boom is a book designer a really really

good one we're talking 50 books in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

That's how good.

Her books aren't just beautifully crafted objects.

They're visual journeys.

Sentences run off the page,

image and text play off each other.

Pages dip and fold.

Some are shredded, sliced, cut. Her Magnum Opus is a book celebrating

a Dutch Energy Corporation's 100th birthday. It took her a year and a half to design, but over three years to prepare for.

She went to shareholders meetings and dug through the company's archives.

One of her books, Weaving as Metaphore, was called the most beautiful

book in the world. Did I mention she was the youngest person ever to get the acclaimed

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