Take 2

Digipak Ideas

Going with the research we had done into the band, other digipaks and CD/DVD covers we came up with a few ideas:

We want to continue the idea of this being 'homemade' by fans on the inside - maybe having handwritten elements?

We also found a website (http://www.duplication.ca) that gave a few templates for digipaks. We have decided to do a simple two fold digipak (for two disks) in order to hold a music CD and the DVD of the video and any extras. This site provides templates for this as well as three fold digipaks. Here is the template for the digipak we intend to create:

http://www.duplication.ca/dl/digipak4p.pdf

We do, however, intend to modify this design in order for it not to accommodate a plastic cd holder. Instead we intend to make a slip for the disks to be inserted into, like the Pink Greatest Hits…So Far digipak.

Digipak Research Final

In our research we did find another blog stating this:

DigiPak/CD Covers should contain:

Band, Song and Record Label logos
Titles - Band, song/album name
Track listing
Copyright Protection logos and information (©, ®, ™)
Barcode & Price
DVD details - age certification or 'Parental Advisory: Explicit Content' label
Pictures - front, back, middle (inside and outside)
4-Sided with 2 Spines- 2 pics outside (front/back covers), possibly 2 inside
6-Sided with 3 Spines- 3 pics outside (front, middle, back covers), 2 inside, with Production pics or a "Production & Artwork" booklet
Collector items
Competition entry forms
Limited Edition - 'Exclusive DVD included', 'Bonus tracks', or 'uncut version'.

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We intend to do our best to recreate these elements.

Digipak Research; Google Digipak 3

Here is a more elaborate form of digipak, featuring an outer casing as well as the structured inside disk folders. This has a strong atmosphere and idea behind it, giving strong messages of the type of content it holds. There is a monochromatic colour scheme that is heavily photoshopped. This may be too elaborate for our product, but the simplicity of it has a strong impact.

Digipak Research; Google Digipak 2

This is the simple four panel digipak. It has an iconic symbol instead of an image and gets across the meaning and atmosphere to the audience/reader. It also uses complimentary colours although there are more than the usual 2 or 3. The image on the CD is strong and could be another reason to try do this in our digipak. The simplicity mixed with the detail in this product makes it strong and memorable. The idea of using heavy photoshop techniques on the photograph picture (the boy) also gives this digipak a modern, artistic edge.

Digipak Research; Google Digipak 1

GOOGLE DIGIPAK 1

This digipak uses more images, but has the same simple colour scheme as others. The CD also fits nicely into the packaging with the printing over the top. This digipak also has sleeves in which flyers and even disks could be placed - all the extras - which could be a interesting idea to play with.

Digipak Research; Distorture

DISTORTURE; REVERE

This again uses simple, primary colours with a single graphic and a single picture repeated over and over again. A question we might ask is whether we want to do a three side digipak, or a simple two side digipak.