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[68] pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 case (29 x 23 x 4 cm)., "White remains one of our personal favorites, if not the favorite, because it was the most focused and, some say, the most elegant issue. The challenge: How do we print a publication using little to no ink? The solution: Artwork was either embossed, printed with varnish (our interpretation of "invisible" ink), or, as in the case of Ruben Toledo's illustrations, hand cut from tissue paper in a small village in China. We used braille on the cover and on many of the inside pages, leading the New York Times to call White "the magazine for touching." We liked to think of it as quite possibly the first fashion magazine for the blind. True to the all-white theme, Greg Foley's feather design for the cover was embossed rather than printed. It gave us great pleasure to walk by the Rizzoli Bookstore windows and see what appeared at a glance to be a wall of pure, blank books." -- Publisher's website. In title on case, the word "white" is rendered in braille. Blind emboss title lettering and illustration of a leaf. Photographs, prints, and prose, printed on papers of varying texture, laid in a white case; many pages are embossed, some make use of braille. Five leaves of plates are illustrations of cut paper housed within tissue sheets; each is labeled: Ruben Toledo. Handmade in China. Visionaire no. 11. Includes "Fashion's fierce independents: the spring 1994 Paris collections" by Bill Cunningham. "Contributor list: Bill Cuningham, Florention J. Pamintuan, Francois Berthoud, Greg Foley, Jeffrey Fulvimari, John Galliano, Kareem Iliya, Maison Martin Margiela, Mario Testino, Mats Gustafson, Michael Economy, Peter Robarthan, Ruben Toledo, Sachio Kamiya, Steven Klein." -- Publisher's website. Includes a printed subscription sheet. Library has copy no. 6. Gift of Gregory E. Foley, RISD Alumnus AP 1991.
ISBN
Visionaire11_White.pdf
Publication Date
1994
Imprint / Year
New York : Visionaire Publishing, [1994]
Measurements
28 cm + 1 case (29 x 23 x 4 cm)
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Publisher
Visionaire Publishing
City
New York
Keywords
art photography; illustration (process); graphic design; embossing; varnishing; tissue paper; cut-paper work; unbound; periodicals; collaboration; portraits; fashion (concept); illustrations (layout features); braille; invisible; touch
Disciplines
Book and Paper
Recommended Citation
Gan, Stephen; Dean, Cecilia; Kaliardos, James; Foley, Greg; and Pamintuan, Florentino J., "Visionaire 11: White" (1994). Visionaire. 24.
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