Thursday 5 January 2017

Digipak Conventions

Genre Related Digipaks

Moose Blood Digipak

Moose Blood 'IKYIM' Digipak Front Cover
  • Simple range of colours
  • Minimalistic image
  • Warm but dark colours
  • Simple band name in relatively small capitalised font
  • Same font album name underneath band name, split with simple line.
  • No iconography
Moose Blood 'IKYIM' Inside Cover
  • Reoccurring theme of the fire
  • Album name split between each side of the cover "I'll Keep You In Mind" "From Time to Time"
  • Track list shown horizontally across cover, underlined by same line on front cover
  • Lyrics of each track shown under each relating track name
  • Credits at the bottom, band members, producers, engineers, assistant engineers, programming, location of recording, photographers, layout and design company.
Moose Blood 'IKYIM' Back Cover

  • Warm fire theme again
  • Band logo at the top
  • Central vertical tracklist
  • Record label information and copyright information in the bottom left
  • Barcode in the bottom right
Taking Back Sunday Digipak



Taking Back Sunday 'New Again' Digipak Front Cover



  • It has been given an aged, distressed appearance
  • Light colours, contrasting with the red interior of the car
  • 90's punk band with a vintage aesthetic, verisimilitude with the car and the outfit of the woman
  • Contents of digipak displayed with a rustic sticker
  • Trigger warning in the bottom left

Taking Back Sunday 'New Again' Digipak Inside Cover
  • Track list underneath the album name (same font but a different colour)
  • DVD credits on right hand side of the cover.
  • Left side of the cover has credits for the album, including: producer, engineers, additional producers and engineers, mixers, recording studio and location, assistants, additional recording studio and location, publisher, band members, art design and band photographer, manager, lawyer, agency, business management, executing producer, marketeers, copyright information with record label, and finally band website.
  • With the credits they also had mentions such as: family, friends and products that they used to make the album.

Neck Deep Digipak


Neck Deep 'Life's Not Out To Get You' Digipak Front Cover
  • Vibrant, abstract artwork
  • Related to the album title, events that you meet along the way in life
  • Hand drawn fonts and pictures
  • Band name at the top off-centre in red, on a contrasting yellow
  • Album name at the bottom with a simple black on white 
Neck Deep 'Life's Not Out To Get You' Digipak Back Cover

  • Similar hand drawn artwork
  • Same font used for the track list as it was for the album name on the front
  • Appears to symbolise a cartoon, mythical map that depicts the journey of the album, following on the theme of a journey from the front cover

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