Duplicity

Date 1991

Designer Deecy Smith

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This collaborative book combined documentary and fiction between images and short stories that had no prior relationship. It was an invention of colliding highly diverse imagery pairings – rather than individual images, stories, or subjects – and creating an interface of new worlds.

The art file of the full book was one of the first in its time. It was designed and created into full production-ready files using Pagemaker 3.02 that were delivered to the printer on a hard disc. As elementary as the images may look – with only black and a tinted light green matte varnish – it pushed the limits using digital technology in 1991.

SizeW 10.5 x H 12

Printer/Producer Printing: The Etheridge Company. Hard cover: John Deckker & Sons

Paper/Material Cover: Black fabric. Inside: White Trophy gloss coated text. Domtar Concerto 60 lb text, Contata green. Wassau Astro Brights, 60 lb text.

Techniques Cover: Red foil stamped. Inside: Offset printing, 4 color process plus light green tinted spot matte varnish.

Copyright Grand Rapids Art Museum and The University of Washington Press

Artifact Type Original (2)

Donor Designvox

ID Number 11362