為何你買不起房子？
Why Can't You Afford a Home?
Book Design, Cover Artwork130 × 190 mm, 172 pages
Traditional Chinese
Author
Josh Ryan-Collins ( 約書．萊恩—柯林斯
)
Translator
Lina Xie (謝莉娜)
Publisher
Typesetter Publishing Company, Hong Kong 手民出版社
Art Direction, Graphic Design
Lai Ping So, Wai Lun Hsu
Printing & Production
Suncolor Printing Co., Ltd., Hong Kong
Video & Photography
mmmmor studio
Josh Ryan-Collins ( 約書．萊恩—柯林斯
)
Translator
Lina Xie (謝莉娜)
Publisher
Typesetter Publishing Company, Hong Kong 手民出版社
Art Direction, Graphic Design
Lai Ping So, Wai Lun Hsu
Printing & Production
Suncolor Printing Co., Ltd., Hong Kong
Video & Photography
mmmmor studio
為何你買不起房子？
Why Can't You Afford a Home?Published in July 2021
ISBN 978-988-74161-6-6
ISBN 978-988-74161-6-6
Book Design, Cover Artwork
The book Why Can't You Afford a Home? delves into the systemic issues that have contributed to the housing affordability crisis. The design of the book corresponds to its content by highlighting the issue of unaffordable housing, and by using the imagery of two interior floor plans with a massive and solid object between them to emphasizes this unattainability. The presence of this expanding object sharply highlights the narrowness of the unit's space.
The design also employs a touch of black humor–a price tag label–an easy symbol of capitalism, which is typically associated with commodities, and places an unaffordable price tag of $100,000,000 on it, satirising the reality of the housing market.
The design also employs a touch of black humor–a price tag label–an easy symbol of capitalism, which is typically associated with commodities, and places an unaffordable price tag of $100,000,000 on it, satirising the reality of the housing market.
