The Rainbow Box

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.

Collections: Fifty Books of the Year (1971)
Discipline: Book design
Format: Book

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
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