The document analyzes and summarizes the design elements of several album covers, including Take That, Kings of Leon, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. Key elements noted include prominent placement of the artist name, album title, and track list, as well as visuals that establish brand identity or appeal to target audiences through sex appeal, maturity, or themes. Across covers, design aims to clearly identify the artist while representing their music and public persona.

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Digipak Analysis
By
Aaron Pye

2. Take That
Name of the band and then the
name of the album at the top in
white but clearly in different fonts
to show the difference between
the two.
Sandy background across both the
front and back cover it highlights them
a little more as they are all wearing
black.
The back of the album
only showing there feet
which gives us the view
that they are modest and
don’t care about having
close ups of their faces on
the front or back of the
album.
List of songs is in a
small font and
doesn't’t really stand
out, similar font to
the album name.
The 4 band
members
walking
together, not
in focus and
also in quite
dark dull
colour’s
similar to the
whole album.
Established
band so you
don’t really
need to see
there faces.
Whole album
has a mature
feel to it
because they
are an older
generation
boy band.

3. Same sandy colour and
dullness in the background so
that it doesn't’t take the
attention away from the CD
itself.
Picture behind the CD holder
within the case is just of them
walking down the road with their
backs facing us showing that they
don’t care about showing us their
faces.
Other three are in the
background but still have more
focus than the one at the front.
Closest shot to a close up but its blurred
so that you cant see the face properly
this then tells me again that they don’t
like to be in the spotlight.

4. Kings of Leon
Name of band in
the corner not very
big and does not
really stand out.
Name of album also
very small and
doesn’t really stand
out.
The whole album
has a green theme
to it.
All 4 band members
cut and put together
into one image.
The font of the album and the band
name has a digital theme to it.
An owl mask in
the middle of
the 4 images,
to create a
sense of
estrange with
Owl wings are open
and you can see the
feathers.

5. Name of band
still in a digital
green font as
well as the
name of the
album.
The track list has all
the songs in white
to stand out from
the green
background as well
as the green coding
in between the
songs.
Back of the album is the back of the
head which is on the front, covered
by the feathers of the owl.
Same colour theme on
the back of the album, to
the front of the album.

6. The booklet inside the album contains the pictures of all 4 band members this is to
assure all fans know what each band member looks like and that the fans have a piece
of memorabilia to have for there selves because they bought the album.

7. Katy Perry
1 CD design, similar to the
colour’s of a candy cane or
sweet colour.
1 CD design looks like
a doughnut so again
links to sweets and
treats trying to link
Katy Perry to
something sweet and
nice.
The pink clouds
represent candy
floss, so again
something sweet
but bad for you.
Almost naked
Katy Perry to
create sex
appeal for her
this is due to the
mass male
attention she
gets.
Back cover of her
album still has the
theme of candy floss,
with the pink writing
showing the track list.
More sex appeal
is used on this
promotional
poster, as she is
wearing a
provocative
outfit leaning on
2 big cakes.
The dress very over the
top and is very Katy Perry.

8. Rihanna
Showing her
face, because
her face is very
recognizable
and clear to see
to attract her
fans. Red lips indicate an
amount of sex appeal as
that is the connotation with
the colour red or even a
little bit of danger.
Her name and
name of the
album are very
distant on the
cover and don’t
really stand out,
I feel this is
because she
expects her fans
to know it hers
just through her
face.
Her face being
on the cover is
also there as it
fits the
conventions of a
pop album,
which helps the
audience
identify her.
The flowers as the CD
covers connotes that
the album is about a
sense of love love and
is aimed more towards
Inside the album/digipak there
is a long foldout image of
Rihanna which creates a sense
of sex appeal as she is
covered by roses which may
also be seen as slightly
voyeurism.

9. Picture of
her sitting in
peaceful
place
looking at
the floor,
can only
see one eye
but still
creates
some sex
appeal with
the image.
Name of
her record
label. Put
on twice.
List of songs
written in
pink gives
the album a
girly pop
feel.
However the conventions are met as the artist
and the list of songs are on opposite sides.
White pink feel covers the album
which gives a girly feel across the
whole album.