Horror’s New Wave: 15 Years of Blumhouse
Book Cover and Interior Design
As a huge fan of horror films, I was especially thrilled to be hired by Simon & Schuster / Simon Element to design HORROR’S NEW WAVE: 15 Years of BLUMHOUSE by BLUMHOUSE with Dave Schilling and an introduction from CEO and founder Jason Blum.
This illustrated visual compendium takes you behind the scenes of the films that have reshaped the horror genre, from THE EXORCIST to the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and HALLOWEEN franchises.
To unify all of the properties into one deluxe book, I was inspired to design it as a sort of bound film script / director’s notebook that’s very worn and passed around to reference all of the collaboration involved in filmmaking while also being a sort of guidebook with secrets inside.
The hand print on the cover and finger prints throughout are meant to be like you’re the murderer using this book as a guide for your next kill, so I placed the prints as if you were actually flipping through.
The vintage paper fasteners are scanned from an early 1953 estimating script of Judy Garland’s version of A STAR IS BORN that I have in my collection, the “bloody” endpapers are from a vintage horror book, and that’s my scrawled handwriting on the spine!
Many thanks to art director Jen Wang and editor Samantha Weiner for thinking of me for this!
