In conceptualizing Slim: Salvacion Lim Higgins, the publishers' vision was resolute: To document her body of work in a manner that would evoke the progressive disposition in which it was originally envisioned, communicating with new and future generations. Slim's designs were to speak for themselves, tempered. by neither perfunctory praise nor false modesty. While the book, as a whole, would be greater than the sum of its parts, the creative collaboration nonetheless would be crucial to its outcome.