Research: Digipak

A digipak is packaging for a CD or DVD. It is normally made out of cardboard and is put into a plastic holder. A digipak normally consists of one or more disc and a booklet, poster or lyric sheet depending on what digipak is bought. Digipaks became very popular during the 2000's. A digipak includes the front, back, spine and at least four additional panels.

Through my research on digipaks i found that there are many different kinds of digipaks due to different styles of genre of music. I found that pop albums had much more bright colours on them whereas rock albums used much darker colours on the front. The style of digipak is very important as it gives the buyer some sort of idea of what to expect, so if there are bright colours then the album is probably going to be energetic and fun whereas if the albums front cover is full of dark colours then there could be expected to be more dark and slow music.

Style of digipak.

I went and also did some research on the styles of digipaks and found that this would be one i would create as it includes the CD back and front cover and also has space to slide in a booklet. It is nice and simple and nothing too complicated and also looks very nice and professional.

Summery:
What i really liked about this album was that the front cover was a picture of the whole band all multicoloured. This went well with the title of the album as it was a CD of their best tracks which were probably a mixture of different meanings which is shown through them being in multi colours. Furthermore i liked how they kept to a beige colour overall it set quite a neutral tone and made it looked old fashioned which again could be another reference to "memory lane' the fact the there are song from the past. What i really liked was the back cover of the digipak as again is was very simple and had all the names of the songs that are featured on the CD. Again the style in which the songs have been written are someones actual hand writing which makes the digipak very personalised and special which again links in with the whole theme of the album and its title.