The Rainbow Box
Robert Cheney, Lydia Link, New York, New York, 1970
Description
The Rainbow Box, consisting of the box itself, four books—A Box of Sun, The Peace Box, The Rabbit Box and The Magic Box plus “The Peace Poster”, honors in art and poetry the four seasons plus the times of life. The idea was to present these four different subjects in individual books that were then put together in as colorful and as exciting a manner as the books themselves were. The concept of the cube represented the multifaceted views of time and life as presented within the books. To produce so many pages of color in a special package at a minimal price required the integration of the efforts of the poet, the artist and the printer to get maximum benefit at minimal dollar cost.
Special Features: The box itself was manufactured by The Box Shop, New Haven, Connecticut, who also assembled the pieces into the cubes and manufactured the color space interiors.
Credits
- Art directors
- Robert Cheney, Lydia Link
- Designer/illustrator
- Norman Laliberté
- Author
- Joseph Pintauro
- Size
- 4 books, each 6 x 6 inches, plus poster, in 6.5 inch cube box
- Pages
- 96 pages each book
- Quantity printed
- edition of 15,000
- Price
- $15.95
- Typeface
- various faces and handlettered
- Typesetter
- Norman Laliberté
- Printer
- Offset Reproductions, Inc.
- Printing method
- offset
- Papers
- Hooper Sunray Opaque Vellum, 70 lb., Ivory, (1 book, The Rabbit Box); Warren Patina II, 80 lb., White, (other 3 books); poster on Hopper Offset Antique White\, 70 lb.
- Paper supplies
- Bulkley Dunton Linde Lathrop, Inc., Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation
- Binder
- A. Horowitz & Son.
- Binding materials
- bound in preprinted Permalin Crash White on 80 pt. pasted boards
- Binding method
- Smythe-sewn, flat-back with board stiffener
- Endpapers
- Canfield Colortext Ebony, Yellow and Light Blue plus one printed endlining on Curtis Stoneridge Text Ivory
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Publishers