Monday 16 December 2013

Consistency in CD Packaging Designs


After designing the front cover for my digipack, I thought it would be a good idea to look into how existing albums keep a consistent style in the album sleeve before I designed the rest of mine.
Here are some photos of some physical copies of albums that I own that I have used for this research.
The main things that I noticed were that the colour scheme stays the same throughout and similar images are usually used. Most designs only use a couple of different fonts.

Digi-pak Advertisement: Draft

This is my first attempt of my digi-pak poster. 

- My initial thoughts was due to the albums name, "AM" to use the font of an alarm clock,  I considered using this throughout the advertisement but thought it looked unprofessional. Here, however, I thought it was appropriate to use the font for the date of the release because it symbolises a countdown.

- One of our initial plans for the music video was to have the main girl to have her dress highlighted in red, however we decided against this towards the end of filming. However I still tried to incorporate this idea into my print work, as I think it makes her stand out more.

- I originally wanted to create a simple poster with very little text so the only focus would be on the release date, band name and album name.
However I have realised this does not give much information to about the band or the digi-pak. 

- I think for my next attempt I should include more information about the band, including the record label. The border and the image, however, I am pleased with as I think they're bold and will stand out to my audience.