Research of digipaks

For the upcoming design of my digipak for my artist, Deseree Diamond, I will need to research some digipaks that current artists have designed themselves. Here are I would briefly discuss my views about the following digipaks I have seen thus far:

Right Side: As you can see, this is the front part of the album cover. It is clear image of the artist with a strong but feminine posture. Around the bottom left, we can see the name of the album. The font is Italic because it displays sentiment and it also follows the colour scheme. On the bottom right, it displays the artist's name. On one hand this could be defined as fairly simple but it catches the audience's attention with dark grey background and bright image of the artist.

 



 

Middle/Spine: In between the front and the back part of the album is the spine. The spine is only meant to have the artist's name and the name of the album/single. As clear in the image above, the album has the name of the artist and the name of the album too. It also has the same colour as the writing on the front part of the cover, this shows that there are following a particular colour scheme.

 

 

Left Side: This is the back section of the album cover. There is another strong image of the artist, Nicole, but this time she reframes from showing her face. From this, we can suggest that she is choosing to represent a different side to her, maybe a side that isn't as strong as the one we are seeing on the front. The grey background may suggest pain or sorrow and the positive gesture that she displays in the front part of the album contrasts the dull colour however on the back we see a brighter background but a more dull pose from the artist- again illustrating a contrast between the images and the colour that is being portrayed.It still follows the colour scheme of the goldish brown colour on the back. It has the essential conventions of the track list, barcode and record label of the artist.

 

Here are a few more that I've researched.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Within these three examples of digipaks, the one that I believe would be most helpful when we are designing our own would be the first one with Nicole. This is because our main artist is a female so we may want to use a similar colour scheme or similar poses. However, the other two examples with Tinie Tempah and Michael Jackson I would like to use a similar type of effects to make the cover look more interesting.