Digipaks are a patented style of compact disc packaging. They typically consist of a book-style, paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD attached to the inside. Digipaks were among the first alternatives to jewel cases to be used by major record companies. Digipak-style packaging is often used for CD singles or special editions of CD albums.
An Oversight
Digipaks consist of either a triple layout (pictures below), or just the layout of a normal CD, only it is printed on this card rather than put into a plastic case. We will likely use the normal CD layout as more information and examples are available to us.
The most important feature of the digipak will be its front cover as this is the main artwork and everything else is designed to compliment it. Here are some examples of digipak and normal CD artworks in our hip-hop/urban genre, as the conventions and styles remain the same for each.
The most prominent feature of our genre's artwork is probably the use of simple font in capital letters. Other than that, there appears to be a large variation in the use of colour, images and styles. This is good because it leaves our group with a large area to work in.
The Back
Closer Analysis
Features of all digipaks
Parental Advisory notice
This had to be added as there is graphic content in the song we have chosen to work with. It is a compulsory feature of all CD artwork. We will need to find a place for it on our album cover
The Bar Code
A bar code is a machine readable representation of data, anything sold in a shop needs one, so our group will have to find a place for this on the back of our digipak
Record Label Logo
Many digipaks played host to the record label of the song they contain, our group will likely embed the 'young money entertainment' logo into our digipak
Recycling Logo
Many digipaks had this logo on this somewhere, most were in green but this black and white one would be more fitting to our scheme.
An Oversight
Digipaks consist of either a triple layout (pictures below), or just the layout of a normal CD, only it is printed on this card rather than put into a plastic case. We will likely use the normal CD layout as more information and examples are available to us.
The most prominent feature of our genre's artwork is probably the use of simple font in capital letters. Other than that, there appears to be a large variation in the use of colour, images and styles. This is good because it leaves our group with a large area to work in.The Back
The back of digipaks are usually much more simple than the front. They contain a simple image and a list of the tracks present, along with various credits to their partners. They maintain the same house style as the front.
Closer Analysis
Features of all digipaks
Parental Advisory notice
This had to be added as there is graphic content in the song we have chosen to work with. It is a compulsory feature of all CD artwork. We will need to find a place for it on our album cover
The Bar Code
A bar code is a machine readable representation of data, anything sold in a shop needs one, so our group will have to find a place for this on the back of our digipak
Record Label Logo
Many digipaks played host to the record label of the song they contain, our group will likely embed the 'young money entertainment' logo into our digipak
Recycling Logo
Many digipaks had this logo on this somewhere, most were in green but this black and white one would be more fitting to our scheme.
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