This document analyzes the album artwork for Disclosure's album "Settle". It discusses several key elements of the cover: 1) The front cover features two young boys resembling the band members, establishing familiarity for fans but departing from conventions of featuring the artists. 2) The boys' alternative clothing style mirrors the electronic music genre. 3) Font colors and positioning on the cover and spine allow key text to stand out against monochrome backgrounds for visibility. 4) Color schemes and design elements like the disk imprint create cohesion across the front, back, and disk while reflecting the vibrant electronic dance style. 5) Legal requirements like credits and barcodes are also prominently

1. This element of the image of the
front cover for Disclosure's album is
consistent throughout their albums
and is a common unique feature to
their work. This gives a sense of
familiarity when the audience see
Disclosure album covers and gives
the electronic duo originality to their
album artwork.
The reasoning behind the picture of the
two little boys is fairly clear if you are a
fan of this electronic duo. As the kids
on the cover look fairly similar and are
of the same age which indicates it is
reminiscent of Disclosure as the band
consists of the two brothers who make
up Disclosure – G.Lawrence and
H.Lawrence. However, through the use
of this, the album front cover goes
against Goodwin's theory as he said
that there should be close ups of the
band faces. Meaning this album cover
doesn’t comply with his conventions. In
terms of the styling of the children, you
can tell from their clothes they are
from an alternative upbringing. Most
kids stereotypically would wear sports
clothes and branded clothes, here the
kids are wearing alternative clothing
style which mimics the genre of the
music the duo makes.
The masthead of the cd cover consists
of the bands name “Disclosure” and
the name of the album “Settle”.
Through the use of black text colour
for the bands name and the white
font colour for the album name makes
it easy for the audience to realise that
the words are separate and mean
different things. Also, these colours
allow the text to stand out on the
monochrome background and allows
it to be eye-catching.
The colour pallet for this album
artwork gives off a vibrant vibe.
Through the use of this, it reflects
the electronic dance music genre
as it is exciting and fun.
Digipak Analysis 3

2. This is the bands website link. This is a promotion
element for the band to allow their audience to look
up other songs produced albums merchandise etc
that will benefit them as a band if people went onto
their website and looked at these different elements
as it could lead to them making more money.
Legal requirements
The spine – this gives the audience
the information of band name and
the album name which is needed
for promotion. As typically, CD’s
are stacked in shops on their side
which means the spine is that part
of the CD that people see when
shopping so this is a vital element
of a CD digipak.
These are record companies,
producers and distributors logos.
These must be credited as they
helped the album be developed
and published therefore need to
feature on the album cover.
The track list on the digipak is centre aligned and is positioned in
the middle of the page. This combined with white bold writing on a
brown background enables the track list to stand out clearly for the
audience. They have also used non bold writing in a smaller text
size for the artists that have featured in songs on their album which
means that don’t stand out as much and disclosure take more of
the credit for the song.
The colour scheme for this back of
the cd digipak consists of brown and
white, two colours feature don the
front cover of the digipak which
means they have tried to keep it
consistent throughout and that the
white text on the monotone
background enables the text to
stand out and be eye catching for
the audience.
This feature highlighted on the digipak is
important as they have incorporated a
disk imprint on the digipak on the back
of the album cover. This gives off the
intention that the band are trying to be
unique and look vintage to make them
stand out as a band and suit their music.
This is the barcode
which enables the
sale of the product.
Record companies, producers and
distributors are shown here which is
a legal requirement to credit those
who allowed the development of a
product.

3. The band name and album name are
positioned centrally at the top of the CD
making it eye catching. This is the same font
style and font colour as it is on the front cover
of the album. This creates familiarity for the
audience as they get familiar to Disclosure
products
Legal requirement to
include on a cd disk.
The colour scheme of the cd is similar
to the front cover of the album cover
as the disk uses orange, black and
white for it’s colour scheme and these
colours are also shown on the front
cover. This also enables the text to
stand out on the disk which allows the
audience to read it appropriately and
enable it to be well presented and look
professional.