Book Cover Project

For this project, I chose to design a book cover for The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn. Anna Fox, the main character of the story, suffers from severe agoraphobia and spends all of her time locked up in her New York City home spying on her neighbors. One day Anna sees something she shouldn’t have seen, and no one believes her. The goal was to convey that things aren’t always what they seem while generating feelings of suspense, distress, and mystery.

For the final cover, I chose to go with a closeup of someone's eye. I wanted to capture the pure emotion of distress. I treated the image making it a black and white halftone challenging people's perception on how they see things. With turning the image into half tone the details of the image are reduced to dots making it hard to see what the image is up close but far away you get the sense of what it is as a whole.