Digipak Inspiration

Moodboard:

In order to find inspiration and ideas for my digipak, Erika and I went through a handful of artists and google searches and decided that the ones we liked we would put together on a moodboard. This is so that when the time comes to designing my own digipak I can refer to this for ideas which I can manipulate in my own way for my own product.

This photo above was the first set of albums that we managed to find with the general search of "digipaks". What I like in particular is the shapes these artists use, and how there is a picture in the shape, for example with Michael Jackson's "This Is It". For Rihanna I liked the rose imagery and how the disc is a rose, which is also a huge part of Outlex's brand image, my artist.

This photo was when we were thinking of artists in particular that we like and have interesting album covers. I like the Chainsmokers' covers for singles such as "Roses" as I think the box with the painted background is something I would like to try and could suit my artist's image. For "Mania" by Fall Out Boy I like the bright colour and lighting, as neon colours and lights is part of the conceptual imagery in my music video and I might want to incorporate that into my digipak. Overall on this photo I love the bright colours and shapes, they stand out compared to other albums we might see.

This final photo is similar to the last in which we looked up various artists and also went through our own music library to see if there are any covers that stood out to us. Here I like the bright colours in the albums and I really like the fonts, e.g. Bastille and Daft Punk. With Daft Punk I thought about How I could do that text with a roses background, or even with a photo and not text.

Looking up all of these albums helped me to gain more of an idea on what I want to be included in me digipak in terms of colour, text and the props in the photo. I have noticed that the artists aren't on many of these album covers, but instead images associated with them and their album, which is the approach I could use for my digipak.