Digipacks blew up around the early 2000's are still a widely used in today's Music Industry.
Research has shown that Digipacks are traditionally in the style of a gatefold paperboard, or a card stock outer binding, including one or more plastics trays capable of holding a CD inside. Visually, there are three main designs a Digipack can appear in: Type Based, Minimalist and Portrait.
Typical Album Cover Conventions:
Artwork of some kind, whether it be a photo or a digital piece.
Album title, artist name all within similar fonts.
Simple colour scheme's which mirror albums overall feel.
Type Based:
Minimalist:
Portrait:
Within any album cover, there are certain conventions and information artist need to incorporate. The album cover should aim to release the content of the artists album, therefore making their advert easily identifiable for future releases. Album cover should also have a theme, image and and an easily distinguished genre. Most of all however, the album look is ultimately what sells, as if it looks good it will attract more interest for the artist.
Inside an Album Conventions:
Occasionally lyrics to songs.
Information behind the makings of the album.
Continuation of the overall albums themes.
Another photo or two of the artist or form of artwork.
Typical Album Back-Cover Conventions:
Artist name.
A barcode.
List of songs that are within the album.
Copyright information, record company name and the year it was released.
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