Digipak Analysis

Ollie Davison

The Wombats – A Guide To Love Loss And Desperation

This digipak has a very bright and eye catching cover, the pink circle holding the name of the band manages to catch the eye of the audience without distracting and stealing attention from the name of the album. The album name is placed directly in the center of the digipak cover and is in white writing on a black circle type shape background, this has the effect of making the album name clear and allows it to stand out against a colourful and busy surrounding. The font used is quite unusual which fits with the indie/alternative style of music that ‘The Wombats’ create, it is quirky but also easy to read.

The back of the digipak is a bright orange colour with a white font, the font is the same as on the front of the digipak and so stays consistent, the tracklist is easy to see and is placed in the middle of the digipak, the tracklist is not in a perfect line down the digipak which again shows more examples of quirkiness that relates to the style of music.

The CD follows the same style as the front cover of the digipak, it is eye catching and interesting and contains the name of the band and the name of the album.

The Kooks – Inside In The Inside OutThis digipak follows a much more simplistic design, the album name and name of the band at the top of the digipak in a clear and easy to read font, it is the only part of the digipak in colour which draws attention towards it, this allows people to easily identify which band the album belongs to. It uses a simplistic monochrome colour scheme which is done in order to give a sens of maturity associated with the style of music, and does not follow conventional themes of bright and colourful themes seen on most mainstream artists albums. The photo used for the digipak is of the band playing guitars, this allows anyone looking at the digipak to see what style of music the band play without having to hear the songs due to the instruments and the look of the artists.

The back of the digipak is very similar to the front as it contains the same colour scheme with a similar picture to that on the front cover, the picture on the back is slightly blurred in order to draw attention to the tracklist which is in the same font as the text on the front of the digipak which shows consistency.

The CD in the digipak has the same colour scheme as the rest of the digipak, it also has the name of the band and the name of the album on it, it incorporates the hole in the center of the CD as part of the design which is clever and stylish.

Red Hot Chili Peppers – By The WayThis digipak by the red hot chili peppers has the name of the band in a large font that goes all the way around the cover, it does not contain the name of the album on the front which is unusual but works well as it prevents the cover from looking busy. The colour scheme is simple yet interesting and draws attention towards it without being overly bright and colourful.

The back of the digipak uses a slightly different colour schemes it is in white and black, it shows a picture of the band to allow anyone viewing the digipak to see what the band looks like. The tracklist is hard to see and is in a different font to that on the cover, the tracklist is harder to see because it is in the same shade of colours as in the background.

The CD is the only place on the digipak that contains the name of the album, it follows the same colour scheme as on the front cover of the digipak, this shows consistency throughout as it also has the same font as used on the back of the digipak for the tracklist.