In this post I am going to post some pictures of various digipaks and talk about their design and how they can influence the design of my own digipak. I want it to link directly to the poster that I will design, maybe using the same photograph and font.
As I need to scan them in, they will be displayed as follows:
Front Cover Back Cover
Inside Front Inside Back
Disc
1. The Killers - Sam's Town
This digipack is all greyscale, apart from the name of the album which has been done in red on the front cover. This is the theme for the album, with small parts of text and a border on the side of the digipack also in red. The most striking thing about the digipack is how a yak has been printed on the disc, with the round horns following the curvature of the disc. The inside front cover is a locational shot to let the person about to listen to the music picture the location they should be thinking of, adding to the mood of the music when listened to. The back cover is a picture of the band suitably dressed for the location pictured. The front cover is just pretty random, I have no idea what a woman in a bikini, and a yak have to do with an album, however it does have an impact on how people feel when they listen to the music, and understand the inspiration behind the songs. Nothing special has been done about the listing of the songs on the back cover, they have just been centre aligned and typed out to an even length over three lines.
2. The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
This is The Kooks' most famous album with three very popular singles. This means that the digipak had to make a good initial and lasting impression. It is pretty abstract design on the whole. The front and back covers less so, which is just greyscale pictures of the band playing with instruments. But when you open up the case, you find another picture of the band on the left, with a red banner through them and on the left is a bright red CD with bold, capitalised letters on them, the artist and album title separated by font colour. The inside back cover is a slideshow of different situations. This is for comedy value mostly, and is appealing to the eye, so the person looking will be interested to see what is in each box, and how the story develops. This is ideally the sort of cover I would be happy with as my final design, a few band/artist photos, with some editing and abstractness on the side.
3. Green Day - International Superhits
Green Day are a very famous american band well known for the abstract genre of their albums. This really stands out with the colours that they have used. Black and white with bright pink and orange in the back ground makes for a very contrasting cover and stands out from a lot of other album covers. The front cover is particularly striking as the colours almost jump out at you and grab your attention, so that you open up the digipak and look at the back to see if any of the songs take your fancy. I particularly like the disc in this pak as the reflective part reflects the styling on the front cover, as well as having the song names listed, which is a very useful feature. On the back cover, the abstractness continues where a close up of the band's heads has been taken and greyscaled, with the bright border around their heads. The inside rear cover is another band shot, with them larking around, continuing the genre of their songs.
4. Feeder - The Singles
The first and most striking thing about this digipak is the black and white. It is a very simplistic design, with the front and inside front covers picturing guitarists whilst in action on what looks to be a stage. The rest of the digipak looks to have been taken from a template, but is simple to read and looks good, with a clear list of the tracks on the reverse and the same font on the CD as is on the front cover of the digipak. There is no image behind the disc, but there is some fine print text at the bottom, (copyright warnings and the like, which have been copied on the disc also). I like this style of digipak the best and would like to have my final digipak relate to this one. I think it is contemporary and is an unusual style of digipak, but I think it works well.
5. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
This is a fairly simple design, the front cover has had a lot of editing done to it, but the rest of the digipak have been made fairly quickly with not much editing input. My favourite part of the digipak is the disc, where the artist and album name are given in the same font as is on the front cover, with a picture of the sun in the centre, gradienting quickly into black, like in space. The inside cover is very simple, with just a few spheres dotted around, portrayed as planets in orbit I would guess. The most interesting and eye-catching part of the digipak is the front cover, this is where the most colour is. It is made up of an imaginary space city scape in the background, and a cartoon image of the lead singers layered in to the foreground. On top of everything however is the name of the band in their signature style with and orange glow behind, relating to the typically orange glow of the sun.
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