This document summarizes the evolution of a digipak design created by Ewa Bryszkiewicz. It shows initial sketches focusing on portraying an ordinary band. Further designs focused on an invented artist "Anonymous X" in a graffiti style. The final design featured the artist trapped in an image on the front cover with track listing and copyright information on the back. The design was created and refined in Photoshop, incorporating downloaded fonts, logos, and images to develop a cohesive theme portraying the artist as hip hop.
2. This was my very first idea for a digipak. When
picking the song and analysing the lyrics I
wanted to design artwork that matched the
This is the first
theme of the song, at the time I did not know
sketch I made
that we had to invent our own artist so I put
for the artwork
‘the ordinary boys’ as the artists (they are the
– I then took the
actual artists of the song we used in our video .
design and
created a digital
version of it in
Photoshop and I
changed it little
bit.
The idea behind this artwork is that the
band are ‘ordinary’ guys, as their name
suggests so I wanted very plain and simple
not flashy artwork. The clock refers to the
name of the song ‘nine2five’ and the
colours were kept very monotone and
matched together.
3. Here are some more sketches that I made at
the beginning. They follow the similar theme
as the previous sketch. Portraying the band as
ordinary, suggesting they have ordinary
boring jobs such as bin men (represented by
the rubbish bin) or some accounting/office
work (shown by the ID tag)
The tag here has no id picture. It
was meant to be a silhouette of
a man with a question mark –
going with the theme that the
band are anonymous or
‘ordninary’. Just like most of
office workers and men in suits
seem to be.
4. This is the first artwork I did for the artist I created.
I Chose the name ‘Anonymous X’ because It
sounded urban and I felt fitted my idea of what
the artist image was going to be.
The idea behind this artwork is that the artist
would be hip hop/rap/urban and one of the
things I associate with that scene is graffiti, so I
chose to make the font for the artwork in the style
of some graffiti and the background a brick wall as
is common in the more urban areas .
The colours I chose were meant to stand out
but at the same time look natural , like graffiti
would. I did this on Photoshop, using images I
found on the internet, if I wanted to make this
my official design I would have had to take
them myself . I didn’t end up using this design
because I felt that it was to simple and I didn't
like it that much. Plus I though it would be
better to use a picture of the actual artist on
the front cover.
5. The design on the left was one I edited a while
back, using an easy online photo editing
software, I liked the idea of the artwork
featuring the artist but not showing him fully
and thus making him look ‘anonymous’ and
therefore mysterious and kind of hipster. I really
liked this design but I decided to change it as It
sometimes looked too dark on some computer
screens and the name couldn’t be read clearly .
The design on the right is a quick
prototype I did in Photoshop, my skills
were still quite basic and I was just
looking to see what looked good.
6. This is what my design looked like in its final
stages. This was all done in Adobe Photoshop
CS6, and as can be seen my skills have
improved slightly and the artwork looks more
developed and professional as compared to
the prototype. Although I still felt that it was
missing something, so later I added a border
to make the images look like ripped scraps of
paper.
Both the front cover and the back cover are
keeping with one theme and they fit
together nicely. The idea behind this design is
that the artist is meant to look trapped or
‘quarantined’ in the image referring to the
title and the theme of the album. The
background also looks urban and that helps
to further create the image of this artist.
7. Finally this is what the artwork looks like
finished.
The front cover features the name of the
artist and title of the album, plus an
‘explicit content’ logo
The back cover had all the usual information
such as the track list and the barcodes and
such plus the logo of the producing company
and some copyright information at the bottom
8. The font I used
is called
‘impact label’ I
downloaded it
from a website
which has free
fonts.
This is the original
image I took and This ‘explicit
started out with. I content’ logo I
chose this one because found on Google
I like the angle it is at images. I wanted to
and I liked how if incorporate it into
showed the artist. my artwork
because I feel like
my artist would
have that sort of
I used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to put together content on his CD’s
the pieces for my artwork, I then used pixlr
express, an online photo editing software to
add a cool border on the edges of the image
9. This logo is a
qr code, It
can be seen
in a lot of
places
nowadays
and is used as
a marketing
This is the base image of the tool. I took
back cover which I cropped the picture
and edited it. I took this from Google.
myself when we were out
shooting a part of our video. I
chose this one to have for the
back cover of my digipak
because I felt like it matched
the theme of the front
cover, the pictures were also This is a company
taken near the same place, so logo I quickly
the front and the back cover designed to put on
have continuity. I wanted my back cover to look the back of the cover
to make it look more
authentic so I goggled and image
realistic and
of a barcode to add to the
professional.
back, because real cd have those
