The document discusses and analyzes several album covers, summarizing: 1) The Strokes' "Angles" cover uses bright abstract colors and shapes with no relevance to the band, catching attention on shelves. 2) Best Coast's "Crazy For You" uses a bright, summery image filling the cover with happy feeling, and relates elements to the band name through a map and coastline. 3) Arctic Monkeys' "Favourite Worst Nightmare" initially shows a house with lights inside but reveals psychedelic wall patterns, though risks not standing out with its lack of color.

1. Analysing DigiPaksMegan Rhodes

2. The Strokes- Angles

3. The Strokes- AnglesWhat first strikes me about the originality of this album cover is the bright colours used and the abstract image used because it has no relevance to the band. I have never seen anything like this before and I think this would help the cover to catch my eye whilst on shelves in the shops.

4. On the other hand, I have noticed that all of the images used on the cover are squares or cubes which could have relevance to the name of the album because each of the shapes have clear angles.

5. The Strokes have chosen to not include an image of themselves on the cover which after doing some research appears to be quite conventional for the genre of indie / indie- rock. I think this idea works better because you can experiment more and don’t have to stick to one image.

6. I think this would be quite hard to recreate because you would need to have a high skill on photo/ graphic software such as Photoshop. However, if you look closely it does look like it’s been hand drawn and then painted with water colours- this is because of the shading that the blocks in the middle use.Best Coast- Crazy For You

7. Best Coast- Crazy For YouWhat captures my eye the most about the cover of this album is the odd picture used and the bright colours. I think even in the darkest of the winter days in would fill you with that ‘happy summer feeling’ because of how bright it is.

8. At first it does appear to be really random, but if you look inside the text that the bands name has been written in, a map has filled it and what looks like a coast in America. As well as this, the image is set on a beach. Both of these ideas match the bands name ‘Best Coast’.

9. The back of the casing continues with the coast setting so it shows some continuity and it’s not all disjuncture.

10. It looks like the text has been written in Courier New and is perfectly left aligned which isn’t a very common font to write in so once again it gives the band a uniqueness about them. I like the way the track listing has been set out so I think I might use the idea for my final DigiPak.

11. Everything on the back seems to have been formatted and aligned in a straight position. I much prefer it this way than to have the track listings all creatively and different because it’s so much easier to find what track you want to listen to.Best Coast- Crazy For YouA technique I have noticed that’s very typical of the indie genre is having an unusual image, with no relevance to played onto the top of the CD. I really like this idea because it gives a real quirkiness and originality to the band- Best Coast’s album being a good example.