DigiPack designs

A digipack is similar to a CD case in many ways but is tending to be the more favoured choice for cds now due to their pros outweighing the cons. Typically, in comparison to regular jewel cases, a digipack is more aesthetically pleasing on the shelf, leading to people being more likely to pick it up. They're shatterproof, unlike a jewel case. A lot more information can be displayed to the public and they can contain more. They're also much cheaper to produce in bulk.

Pictured: Crap

We decided to use a digipack for these reasons and because you can be a lot more stylistic with a digipack, with more surfaces to put a picture on. To do this i found a template for the group and we discussed what we would like to see on the digipack. The end result came to this:

 

 

Here i have kept the overlay to show how the print would be folded after it has been printed off and put on card. Without the overlay it looks like this:

 

The design for the digipack came from the image that is on the front cover. This is the only image of the band that is available on the internet and was already in sepia. While on photoshop I can make full colour pictures sepia tone, i can't reverse the proccess so i decided to keep the sepia tone throughout and make it a theme. I pulled some images from around sites such as www.flickr.com and www.imgur.com to find street views of alleys that look similar to those in the background of Scar's picture to make it seem like they're all from the same town / city and added the sepia effect. This made the theme for the outside panels, all being streets and alleys. On the front and back cover i then added the floral overlays to add some texture and depth to it. Opting to choose the floral patterns simply because it framed the pictures nicely, in particular the man sitting on the stairs in the background of the front cover. We also wanted a theme of illusions for the digipack, which was originally going to be the whole theme, before we realised that it wasn't band oriented enough. the illusions, we felt, would be interesting and eye cathcing, therefore would make people want to hear the music. While we never ended up using the illusions on the exterior, one made it as the cd tray, which was originally the front cover. We felt the circular symmetry worked well as a cd tray. The checker board panels were to ass symmerty to the interior as the digipack would open with one checkerboard on either side of the tray. I then added the wood effect background to keep the sepia look and it ended up working nicely.