Draft Digipak & Poster

After extensive research into minimalist digipak and album cover designs, I have decided to adopt a similar design for my digipak using one image on the front cover as the main focus then linking the other panels to this using various different methods. The image on the front cover of the digipak is an photograph I took whilst at Leeds Festival whilst a flare was illuminating part of the crowd I was in. I believe this photograph is effective for use on an album cover as it quite striking, original and will catch the target audiences eye amongst other albums. Also, the majority of the photo is blank which allows room for the band and album name to be placed onto the photograph, transforming it into an simplistic album cover (after editing). I have then tried to design the other 3 panels of the digipak to flow on from this to give a sense of continuity throughout. On the inside left panel I incorporated a zoomed in (and edited) image of the red smoke from the flare therefore creating a sense of continuity by adhering to the colour scheme. The back cover/track list is very conventional containing all the necessary information such as legal wording, barcode and record label logo. The layout of the back panel is extremely simple, maintaining a minimalist look, whilst also adhering to the colour scheme once again.

In the creation of this poster I have tried to maintain the style I used throughout the digipak of simplistic and minimal in order to achieve an effective design that stands out. Using the same image from the front album cover allows the CD to be easily recognised for those who have seen the poster and will stand out (even subconsciously) as they have seen the image somewhere before. I have again adhered to the colour scheme of my digipak to create a uniform feel between the products as this is a very common convention where a product range maintains the same colour scheme throughout all its products created.