Kate Ruscher
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The Virgin Suicides

A handmade book cover redesign for Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides. The concept was driven by the book’s themes of adolescence, femininity, deterioration, and impermanence. These themes are visually represented through the cracked and shattered Virgin Mary figurines juxtaposed by a soft, pale pink silk backdrop as well as the custom lipstick handwritten typeface.

handmade — art direction — typesetting

“In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.”

“In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.”

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