The digipak for Coldplay's album "Ghost Stories" features artwork by Czech artist Mila Furstova depicting scenes and memories encased in angel wings, reflecting the album's themes of heartbreak and moving on from a lost love. The back of the digipak contains song information and credits against a night sky backdrop continuing the album's mystical theme. The inside contains just the CD, following the album's blue color scheme and title.

1. What is a digipak

2. Album: Ghost stories by Coldplay

3. The artwork for Ghost Stories is an impressive
etching by Czech-British artist Mila Fürstová.
The artwork is a large-scale mosaic of different
objects, scenes and ideas. The entire image is
encased within a pair of angel wings, which is
typical of Furstova's etchings; various scenes
and scenarios encased within a larger object,
usually inside a frame of some sort. One non-
Ghost Stories example is her 2011 etching All
Things Are Known to the Soul II.
The meaning behind the artwork, however, isn't easy to comprehend unless you understand the
main ideas revolving around the album itself. Ghost Stories is a concept album that revolves
around a broken relationship. The songs tell of a man's heartache and fight against depression
after losing the love of his life in a sudden, dramatic way. The singer, however, breaks hold of
his depression, learning that love doesn't last forever, and you always have to move on. There
are other people in this world, and it isn't worth holding on to one that doesn't want to hold on to
you.
The artwork reflects the heartache of the singer, with images of the same man and woman repeating
over constantly throughout the artwork. While most of the scenes depicted in the artwork would be
otherwise seem rather odd, it creates a mood; like we're peering through a person's memories and
feelings, especially of and towards a person he loved the most. The fact that all of this is encased within
a pair of angel wings, and the presence of many birds throughout the artwork suggests that these
memories and feelings are simply a photographic past. The birds and wings allude to the underlying
message of the album; moving on and never letting go of love. Like "a flock of birds", love comes and
goes. The man has moved on, and Ghost Stories is his memoir.

4. The back of the
digipack
The back of the digi pack consists
Of
1. The name of the songs
2.Other information
3.Brief Barcode
The art on the back of the album
Portray a night sky with stars
Which helps the digipack relate
To the choice of alternate rock
A lot better .as the whole theme
Follows flow and suble soundtracks
So the album art has been kept
To have a very mystical feel to it

5. The inside of the digipack just consistsof a cd of the songs. Following the actual
theme of the whole album it is also blue and consists of textings that highlists the
Cds name and the name of the band. Formally introducing . Most alternative rock
Music digipacks follow the same pattern and the same routine while establishing their
digi paks .some can be categorised alike while others hold a lot of distinction

6. Radiohead -Rainbows

7. By the spring of 2007, Radiohead was done with In Rainbows – a lean 10-song set
whose warm, pristine production showcased Yorke's thrilling melodies and the band's
renewed bond. The album's release was fittingly unorthodox: Fans could buy it online at
whatever price they chose. What began in turmoil ended in an act of rebellious
reinvention. "It took a lot of time and energy to do this stuff justice, but we got there,"
Godrich says. "Between them, it was an opportunity to reconnect. Most people are not
really friends with the people they went to school with by this point in their lives, you
know? But they have a particular kind of chemistry. Like a family."

8. About the Cover

The cover of rainbows shows text saying
rainbows in several different colours which
covers the actual background of the digipak
which is orginally showing the eruption of a
volcano.
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The album art follows the bands concept of
using music as a mediam to become icons of
bond between the the band and their family
members and the colours are a vivid sign of
joy and bright idea of life which they are trying to
portray through the album

9. Talking in terms of the colours the
whole album front and back gives you
A very bright and colorful impression
Which is a norm in alternative rock
music
The background of the album is black
And contains informations about the
Sountrack and other relevant things
Which are very usual on most digipak
Albums
Overall these colours singify a sense of bonding and joy.
The back cover is very simple in design as it doesnt follow on from the front cover and
Just compromises of a black background making text more prominent in the whole
didipak incudling the bands name and other relevant information

10. ALBUM ; American idiot

11. We can see that the text is a bold, clear sans serif font
that is being displayed at the top of the album and
dominates a majority of the album cover. We can see
that this was done intentionally by the artist in order to
catch their attention and instantly remind the audience of
the band name and help to make it more memorable to
the audience once they leave. The bold sans serif font
could indicate that the album is predominately more
male based than females and this is again another major
convention in the rock, punk genre as it is a more male
based audience.
We can see that the shade being used on the words 'Green Day' are a clear white against the
black in order to create contrast and help those words stand out more to the audience. We
can see that their is an evident red, white and black colour scheme on this album which is a
definite convention of this genre and therefore meets the audience expectations and gains
their attention. I feel that this colour scheme helps to give of connotations of danger and anger
which links to the image being displayed of a bomb and a hand. The fact that this colour
scheme tends to fit in with audience expectations means that this album can attract many
traditionalists from the social value groups and makes it more desirable. The other value
group this could attract is many self actualizers as the red can give of connotations of passion
which is something that self actualizers tend to be very in touch with.

12. In terms of the image we can see an image that there is an image of a hand holding a hand
shaped grenade giving of many political themes from the album which is something that could
be extremely interesting to the people in their late teens in terms of the music they would listen
to. The fact that the band are not present in the image gives of indications that they are very
successful and well known and therefore do not need to be present at the front of the album.
In terms of the image we can see that there is blood dripping from the grenade and this shows
themes of violence and war which I feel was done intentionally by the band in order to attract
more males as this is generally their field of interest and women may be more uncomfortable
seeing an image that gives of these connotations. I also feel that the violent themes are
present in order to attract many teens to the album as at this age more teens are attracted to
these impending issues and therefore look for a form of escapism and knowledge in the music
they listen to as opposed to the older generation who may be more mature and look for
answers and political knowledge elsewhere.
n terms of the rough sketch of the spade we can see that this was conducted and placed on
the digipak intentionally in order to appeal to the self actualizers on the group further than
initially done with the names of the songs and the format of the text. This can be seen as
intentionally created in a way to appeal to the audience and make them feel as though the
album is all about the personal aspect of the artist and therefore the use of the hand drawn
image and text makes it seem more personal and attractive to the audience.

13. The back of the cover
this type of genre it is important for it to seem more rough and chaotic due to the fact
that this distinguishes it from being as clean cut and commercial as other genres such as
Pop and Country are allowing the consumer to instantly realize what genre this belongs
to and therefore are more able to decide whether or not they wish to purchase the
album. The simplicity of background of this CD cover is an essential part of not only the
genre but this artist's music in general in terms of the fact that it allows the consumer to
understand that the music is the most important feature to the band and therefore is
simply given the most attention through the largest section of the back cover
In terms of the bottom of the digipak we can see that this fits another convention of the
genre in terms of the fact that there is a parental guidance placed at the bottom of the
cover which is typically seen on mainly rock and hip hop genres and therefore allows the
customer to realize the what genre this typically belongs to.
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