Digipak Research

Another part of our coursework is to design a digipak for our song. A digipak is a specific type of packaging for compact disks. They consist of four pages that need decoration, and the disc itself.

Famous Cover Designs

This album cover is striking to the audience due to the image on the front cover. It grabs the attention of the public because of its simplicity, bright colours and randomness of the subject of the picture itself. I like these combinations of factors within this design, I feel it really accentuates the quirkiness of the band. I think it would be a good idea to mimic this level of effective simplity within the design of our digipak.

This digipak album cover is extremely simple and honest. The singer is sat on a chair angled slightly away from the perfect centre. Although we could not use the actual Band of Horses, we could use Claire who is the actress within the video to be the character on the front cover as she is recognisably connected to the song.

This album cover is a photograph that is taken in sepia mode of a visual representation of the word 'sundown' which appears in the album title. The relevance of the photo is very clear once the audience has read the name of the album itself. This is a very effective album cover even though it contains none of the band members on and no other people. I think that this cover would attract an audience because it portrays an idyllic and serene landscape that everybody would love to experience. Kings of Leon play music within the bounds of the same genres as Band of Horses so this research is definitely relevant.

Vampire Weekend produced this album cover which I find to be mildly controversial in a bizarre way. I find that it is completely different to those album covers that we are so used to seeing due to the fact that it is not a member of the all male band, and that it was taken over 26 years ago. The band instantly became fixated on the photograph and knew that they wanted it as their album cover regardless of the relevance or significance. The cover is extremely simplistic yet striking to the eye, I find it to be an extremely aesthetically pleasing design. It also gives me faith that somehow we can produce a realistic looking digipak design based on images that are not of an american four man rock band.

This is the artwork for The Last Shadow Puppets' debut album which is absolutely breathtaking. The band used a photograph taken in 1962 of a supermodel, once again bearing minimal relevance to the songs or the band but gaining recognition for its elegance and beauty. The framing of the photograph is what definitely makes it so appealing, the right-alignment of the girl counteracts the heaviness of the text. I adore the use of black and white with this image and the burgundy compliments this perfectly.