UNDERSKUD

BOOK COVER REDESIGN & REBINDING

Emma Holten’s ‘Underskud’, meaning deficit, is a book about feminist economy. It has a critical view on a dominating tendency of everything always being valued according to its economical potential.
As a consequence of this, care virtues are lost in the big accounting - For how do you value a hug, making sure everyone gets to participate in the conversation during the lunch break or helping someone who is having a bad day? In this design, I have been working with contrasts to conceptualize this absurdity visually:
On the front of the cover, I have made a collage of two of my classmates hugging, printed on a pile of old receipts with a thermal recipe printer.
The back of the book is bound in an old wallet, wherein i have placed a collection of care-like, constructive or femininely charged objects instead of money. These objects are also found printed and coated with silver foil on the books’ endpapers.