{"podcast":{"title":"Design Emergency","slug":"design-emergency-5826807","podcast_index_feed_id":5826807,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6376036839b22e00111c4121","website_url":"https://www.instagram.com/design.emergency/?hl=en","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1668678490381-f05c1a3801c41a2e85f471d90025b9ca.jpeg","author":"Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli","episode_count":54,"summary":"Welcome to Design Emergency, where the design curator Paola Antonelli and design critic Alice Rawsthorn will introduce you to the inspiring and ingenious designers whose success in tackling major challenges – from the climate emergency and refugee crisis, to ensuring that new technologies affect us positively, not negatively – gives us hope for the future. Follow our Instagram @design.emergency to see images of all the design projects described in each episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807"},"episode":{"title":"Irma Boom on the Future of Book Design","slug":"irma-boom-on-the-future-of-book-design","published_at":"2026-04-14T23:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807/irma-boom-on-the-future-of-book-design","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807","url":"https://shows.acast.com/design-emergency/episodes/69de609dae33864715009637","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6376036839b22e00111c4121/e/69de609dae33864715009637/media.mp3","summary":"What is the future of the printed book? Does it have one? And, if so what will it consist of? Who better to answer this than the woman who is inconstestably the greatest book designer of our time, the brilliant Irma Boom. In this episode of Design Emergency, Irma tells our cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, why the printed book is too important to join all the other analogue objects that have become extinct in the digital age. Irma has designed some of the most beautiful, intriguing, original and surprising books of our time by experimenting with new facets of book design: in terms of their functions, forms, tactility, scent, printing and papers.  She tells Alice how she fell in love with book design as an art student in Amsterdam, and began her experiments as a junior designer at the Dutch government’s publishing and printing office in The Hague. Irma also describes some of her favourites of the centuries-old books that she collects as research tools in her Amsterdam studio, and has encountered through her research in historic libraries, including the Vatican’s. We hope you’ll enjoy this episode. You can find images of the books Irma describes on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from inspiring global design leaders who are in the forefront of forging positive change. Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Recording and editing by Spiritland Creative. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"What is the future of the printed book? Does it have one? And, if so what will it consist of? Who better to answer this than the woman who is inconstestab…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2792,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/design-emergency-5826807/episodes/irma-boom-on-the-future-of-book-design/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807/irma-boom-on-the-future-of-book-design.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}