My House Of Horrors

Jingzhu Wang, 2021

9×13 inches

 

Statement: 

I designed a book cover for a horror novel, named My House Of Horrors. This is an online novel that I like very much, and I decided to design the cover after reading it carefully. The main character of this story is a man who goes to many haunted places with his cat. The book tells scary and touching stories. There are two important clues in the book, Scarlet city and shadow, so I put these on the cover of the book. The book cover I designed mainly uses black and red because it can give people a sense of horror and mystery. Throughout the book cover, I used the same color but different shades of color. This makes the cover simple but beautiful. In the background, I did not use pure black, but added some gray, because I think pure black is too rigid and can make people feel breathless. In the illustrations, the silhouettes of cats and people are clearer and darker, which enhances the contrast between the characters and the bloody world, and also makes the book cover more eye-catching.

In the text design, I use free fonts in Adobe Photoshop. On the cover, the title of the book I use is more handwritten style, because this can increase the reader’s feeling of empathy and make the book more terrifying. On the back of the book, I used a more formal font for the introduction of the book because it is easier to read. After the group discussion, I changed the author’s name to a more design sense, which is like a ghost floating. For the title on the side of the book, at the end, I decided to use a more three-dimensional embossed material, which also looks like marble, and set the font border to shine. For the illustration part, I used Adobe Photoshop to draw it myself, and finally typeset in InDesign.