The document provides details on the draft layout for a digipak album cover. The front cover features a close-up image of the artist with one eye resembling a yin-yang symbol to represent the good and bad in everyone. It highlights the artist's journey to leave his criminal past behind and become a successful rapper. The CD design depicts a road and tower blocks to represent the streets and city the artist comes from. The tracklist page is in black and white and features an image of the artist dressed in black on a brick wall to represent his working class roots. Clouds and the yin-yang symbol are continued on the inner panel to maintain themes.

1. LAYOUT DRAFT OF
DIGIPAK
BY JOSEPH THOMAS-SAMUELS

2. FRONT COVER DESIGN
This is my front cover design for my digipak. It has the usual
conventions of a digipak front cover which are the main
image and the album title. I chose to not include the
artists name as I wanted to highlight his star quality and
status and show that the artists name isn’t needed to
show who he is; instead his image and album title does all
of the talking. The main image is a close up image of the
artist, to show the artist facial expression in detail. One of
the artists eyes resembles the notable Ying-Yang symbol. I
included this as it represents two different sides in
everyone: the good in the bad and the bad in the good.
This highlights the content of the album, as our video is
based upon a song by the artist who is determined to get
away from his criminal past and become a successful
rapper. The clouds and sky represent the thoughts of the
artist being at the top of his game and being at the top of
the rap game as well.

3. CD DESIGN
The CD resembles the theme of ‘the streets’ that many UK
rap artists are stereotyped to come from. The main focus
of the image is a road which clearly represents a street
and the physical idea of it rather than the metaphorical
side of violence and crime. The road also represents travel
and highlights them journey that the artist has gone on
from the life on ‘the streets’ to where he is now as an up
and coming rapper. The sides of the CD image shows
tower blocks representing the city of London where he
comes from. These tower blocks also represent the
background that the artist comes from.

4. TRACKLIST
The tracklist page will be in black and white to resemble
simplicity. The main image is of the artist on a brick wall;
this represents the artists working class roots and his
humble beginnings. The artist is dressed in all black to
represent the theme of power and mystery. The theme of
mystery is used here to intrigue the audience into looking
deeper into the album cover. The tracklist has a list of 16
songs that we as a group will discuss to make up.

5. INNER PANEL
The inner panel of the digipak maintains the theme of the
clouds and sky in the background. Also, the Ying-Yang
symbol which was featured on the front cover is brought
back to highlight the importance that it represemts/