The document compares and contrasts the design elements of 5 different band's album digipaks, including:
- Dream Theater's digipak uses purple, blue and black colors with an image of a person sleeping and dreaming.
- Nickelback's uses black and grey with a photo of the band's guitarist playing at the sea.
- Entity Paradigm's uses red, black and white with an abstract sketch of an unborn baby representing progress.
- Avenged Sevenfold's uses diverse colors with an animated destruction image diverging from the others.
- Pantera's uses red, orange and black with a striking snake, relating to their album title "The Great Southern Trendkill".
2. • Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging,
and is a registered trademark of AGI-Shorewood, an
Atlas Holdings LLC company. Digipaks typically consist
of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer
binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding
a CD or DVD attached to the inside.
3. • Every music genre has its own representation, in different
forms. The most indispensable representation is of the
color scheme and the images used in every music
related product (Magazine, Poster, Website, Digipak,
etc.). The same goes with the digipak. I have shown a
comparison between the digipaks of the bands, Dream
Theater, Nickelback, Entity Paradigm, Avenged
Sevenfold and Pantera in next slides.
4. • The color scheme of this digipak is purple, blue, black
and red. The main image delineate the title of the
album “When Dream And Day Unite”. The main image
shows that a person is sleeping and dreaming in the
daylight.
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6. • Main Title: The main title of the digipak is written in a very simple
sans serif font, which pretty much describes the genre of the band,
Rock/Progressive Rock by its simplicity.
• Main Image: The main image is about a person sleeping and
dreaming which depicts the album title “When Dream And Day
Unite”.
• Band’s Album Title: The band’s album title is “When Dream And
Day Unite”, it is all about the moment, when a dream will come true.
• Production Details: These are the details which shows the name of
the producer/s, the company/record label or the studio.
• Track Listing: Track listing shows us the track names, also the
duration and the artist/s name sometimes.
• Bar Code: Bar code is a zebra line code, in which the details of the
product are stored and by scanning with a bar code reader, the
details can be retrieved.
7. • The color scheme of this
digipak is black, grey and
natural colors. The title of
the album is Photograph
and the very first image
depicts it. The main image is
about a person playing the
guitar.
9. • Main Title: The main title of the digipak is written in a modern sans
serif font. It stands out, because it is in block capitals and contrasts
the background. The band would want it to stand out so it is easily
recognizable and the audience would know that their new album is
out.
• Main Image: The main image focuses on the lead vocalist and
guitarist of the band Chad Karoger. It shows that he’s playing the
guitar at the sea side in his lonely time.
• Band’s Album Title: The band’s album title “Photograph” is all about
the memories of the artist’s life.
• Production Details: These are the details which shows the name of
the producer/s, the company/record label or the studio.
• Track Listing: Track listing shows us the track names, also the
duration and the artist/s name sometimes.
• Bar Code: Bar code is a zebra line code, in which the details of the
product are stored and by scanning with a bar code reader, the
details can be retrieved.
10. • The color scheme of this
digipak is red, black and
white. The main image is an
art work but not an original
photo. The cover of the
album depicts a sketch of an
unborn baby. The cover
shows that this album talks
about progress in life as the
literal meaning of Irtiqa is
progress or evolution. I
found it as a totally different
concept.
12. • Main Title: The main title of the digipak is written in a simple
serif font in an order to represent the genre, General Rock.
• Main Image: The main image is an art work but not an original
photo. The cover of the album depicts a sketch of an unborn
baby.
• Band’s Album Title: The name of the album “Irtiqa” talks
about progress in life as the literal meaning of Irtiqa is
progress or evolution. I found it as a totally different concept.
• Production Details: These are the details which shows the
name of the producer/s, the company/record label or the
studio.
• Track Listing: Track listing shows us the track names, also
the duration and the artist/s name sometimes.
• Bar Code: Bar code is a zebra line code, in which the details
of the product are stored and by scanning with a bar code
reader, the details can be retrieved.
13. • The color scheme of this digipak is green, orange,
black, blue and yellow. The main image is an animated
image. A destruction is shown in the photo. The art
work is totally divergent from the other examples.
15. • Main Title: The main title is written in a modern sans serif font to
create a sensible look over an artwork. The main title is written in a
yellowish font.
• Main Image: The main image is an animated image. A destruction is
shown in the photo. The art work is totally divergent from the other
examples.
• Band’s Album Title: The album title is written just like the main title
but it is written in a blue color, which depicts the difference between
the main title and the album’s title.
• Production Details: These are the details which shows the name of
the producer/s, the company/record label or the studio.
• Track Listing: Track listing shows us the track names, also the
duration and the artist/s name sometimes.
• Bar Code: Bar code is a zebra line code, in which the details of the
product are stored and by scanning with a bar code reader, the
details can be retrieved.
16. • The color scheme of this
digipak is red, orange and
black. The main image
shows a snake, who is
ready to strike and kill
people.
18. • Main Title: The main title is written in a gothic font as the
band’s genre of music is hard rock/metal and it has to be
simple but attractive.
• Main Image: The main image shows a snake, who is ready to
strike and kill people.
• Band’s Album Title: The album’s title “The Great Southern
Trendkill” is represented by the main image, which is of a
snake, who is ready to kill someone.
• Production Details: These are the details which shows the
name of the producer/s, the company/record label or the
studio.
• Track Listing: Track listing shows us the track names, also
the duration and the artist/s name sometimes.
• Bar Code: Bar code is a zebra line code, in which the details
of the product are stored and by scanning with a bar code
reader, the details can be retrieved.
19. • Each of the digipak is
different from each other,
while they all belong to the
rock bands. Dream Theater
and Nickelback have used
the main image of a
person, whereas, E.P and
Avenged Sevenfold have
used the art work and
Pantera have used an
image of a snake.