The document analyzes the cover art and design of the compilation album "Digipak" by The Smiths. It summarizes: - The color scheme uses blue, black, white, sepia and red to convey themes of sorrow, sadness, nostalgia, romanticism and danger. - The layout features a diptych CD case, large format images, repeated cover art and non-standard capitalization and font sizes. - Composition follows the rule of thirds, framing the band members and centering the title. - Typography matches the romantic style of lyrics with varied colored fonts. - The complex design construction includes a singular pocket and fold-out pages for the

1. Textual Analysis:
Digipak
Morgan Redman

2. Digipak

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7. Colour Scheme
• Blue, black, white, sepia, red.
• Blue to connote sorrow and sadness, themes of songs in
the compilation such as “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable
Now”.
• Black and white to imply the darker themes of society
and belief systems.
• Sepia to convey the nostalgia of youth.
• Red and pink colourisation to imply danger, romanticism
and being free.

8. Colour Scheme
Sepia
colourisation to
evoke nostalgia,
blue connotations
Red, pink warm
colourisation
links to the
romantic style of
the music

9. Layout
• Non-standard capitalisation, rule of thirds composition,
large format images, diptych CD case inside, plastic
inside casing, repeated cover image on booklet.
• The band name is placed in a significant position over
the album title due to font size and the capitalisation
of “THE SMITHS”.
• Large images take precedence in the booklet as there are
too many song lyrics for a small leaflet with 45 songs.
• Dual CD is good for this number of songs but for a
single only one would be needed and thus the layout is
less significant.
• Repeated use of cover image on leaflet for impact.

10. Layout
Diptych disc
layout with
continuous
background to link
the layout
together
seamlessly

11. Rule of Thirds
• Band name and compilation title in the centre third of
the rule of thirds compositional grid.
• Band name in top central third due to the layout of the
photograph as the cover image but also as the centre is
the main focus of the eye of the receiver.

12. Rule of Thirds
All band
members
framed in
grid
squares
except for
lead singer
Composition
of title in
central
column

13. Image, Text and Font
• Various images: black and white, sepia, colour, blue
hue, red colourisation etc.
• Adobe style typography in varied font colour: non
capitalised in white and capitalised in blue.
• The colours evoke sorrow, nostalgia and romanticism to
match ideas and themes of the lyrics of the songs in the
compilation.
• The typeface and font colours link to the romantic style
of the lyrics.

14. Image, Text and Font
Colourisation
of fonts to
match the rest
of cover art

15. Design Construction
• Complicated diptych dual two disc CD layout with
singular pocket.
• Back 1
• Front 1
• Secondary fold out back 1
• Secondary fold out front 2
• Disc compartment 1
• Disc compartment 2
• Singular pocket

16. Design Construction

17. Application to Individual
Project
The ideas that can be taken from this for the individual
project include:
• Post-production colourisation editing
• Various fonts throughout
• Print on booklet matching the cover
• No logo used
• Unorthodox genre conventions with no lyrics in the
booklet