Making Of the Digipak

By Ajay Ladwa
Ideas from real digipaks
Elliot
Smith-
He is on a stair case, this would be good as our skater would
be able to do a jump from the top of the staircase. We have
used this as our back cover.

Jeremy Warmsley – we thought that a close up of the artist

face would be good, knowing that it he is releasing his first
album and so people will have to know how he looks like.
We haven’t used an close up on his face, but the front of the
digipak shows the side of his face, so people can make the
gist of his face.

Kurt Vile – him with a scenery behind him and this cover
looks a bit cartoonish. We tried implementing the use of
making our digipak cartoonish, but that kind of failed due to
it not looking professional.
1 draft of digipak
st

Inside

Front + Back
 Flipped the
other way
round

before after

We made a few changes to our first draft, the first was (the digipak on the left) we
had made the font and back cover look cartoonish. The inside cover remained the
same. However we tried to see what it would look like if it was the other way round,
and it does look better.
Next we tried adding black outlines around the digipak, we had to put in the vertical
line as the artist’s and album name would go there. However, the horizontal line
looked too thin, and so we got rid of it. We checked if it looked better if it was thicker
but then we had realised other album covers didn’t have this.
• We were nearing to the end of our digipak and
we were having second opinions about the
digipak. A couple of people from our media
class thought the front and back cover were
good if they were like on the inside or some
extra features. So we had to scrap that idea
and decided to keep it plain and simple. We
had gone back to the starting point and only
added a few extra changes.
Final Digipak
 Changes to the front
• Front = we didn’t make any changes to it,
apart from us adding the name of the artist
and album. For the artist name, we decided
to have a similar font to what “The Kooks”
had. And for the album name we decided to
have “The Fratellis” font, we chose this
because it looked plain and simple and the
indie genre does have a lot of simplicity in it.
(look back at the font research presentation)
 Changes to the back
• The light above the artist didn’t have much of
a glow or shine to it, so we decide to put in a
glow via Photoshop.
• We also added the barcode, the record label
logo and the rights at the bottom of the cover.
• Furthermore, we added the track names in
the colour yellow. We chose yellow as it would
be easier to read.
 Changes to the inside picture
• We added a glow to the white sky.
• We also added in some of his hit singles. They
all had different styles added onto them. We
thought we would challenge the simplicity
convention of the indie genre, because as
there was graffiti on the walls, we thought the
track names would correspond to the graffiti
on the walls.
 Changes to the CD case
• We thought we should cover this up, by
putting a picture of the artist skating. This is a
very repetitive design as this would let the
audience acknowledge his passion and talent
for skating.

We had to get rid of that shadow on the right picture – the photographer. We did this by
going on photoshop and using the tool called Cloning Stamp, we just cloned a bit of the
ramp and pasted it over the shadow.
By Ajay Ladwa