Digipak Design Research

Kanye Wests Digipak:

Most CD’s relate to the cover on the front of the CD case. On this CD the link is the bear as it is the same bear on the CD and on the front. This is what we are planning on doing with our CD. Advantages of this CD are that it is simple but effective as it links to the album cover. Is the CD was lost from its case; it would be easy to put the two back together as they link. It is important to keep the colour schemes the same to create the correct mood the artist wants to give. This makes the digipak relate to some of the songs on the album. Whatever the mood of the album shows, it is likely that that will be the mood of the songs. The front of the CD case seems to be very bare not having the name of the album nor the name of the artist. However, the CD has the name of the artist and the name of the album on it but nothing more. This must mean that the rest of the information must be at the back of the cd case.

Drake’s Digipak:

Similar the previous CD, the CD and the front of the album are closely linked due to the picture on the front of the album is almost identical to the picture on the CD. Again, like the other CD, there is bare minimal writing on the front of the CD and the album. However, the CD seems to have more writing than the last CD we analysed as this CD has the names of the producers writing extremely small around the edge of the CD. Due to the artist being so well known and that picture of the artist being so famous, the name of the artist isn’t needed on the cover of the album as people would already know who it is. Using the same image is successful for Drake as it has become his promotion for his whole tour for this album which makes it recognised, however, we don’t want the image to be the same on the cd as that image will already feature on the poster. Therefore, we would rather all of the images relate and lead on from each other rather than repeat. 

Ukiyo Live Digipak:

 

This Cd is how we would like ours as it has a small image on the cd which links to the whole album but isn’t a repeated image. The image carries on when the cd is taken out as it is clearly related to the album therefore it is fitting. We are going to have smoke instead of fire.

Similar CD’s:

All of these CDs are very similar in the way that they are all simple but effective. Unlike the other two CDs, these don’t use a picture of the artist or the same picture on the album, they just say the name of the artist, the name of the album and the executive producers written very small around the edges of the CD. We will be doing something like this with our CD as we feel that because we are using the same picture on the front of the CD and on the poster, we don’t want to be using it on the actual CD as well. The Cd's aren’t overcrowded and the simplistic design actually benefits them. There colour scheme works well as they are binary opposites which means that they stand out from one another, making is simple but effective.