This is Digipak research at which analyses the front and the back of album covers.

1. DIGIPAK RESEARCH
Front and Back of Album covers

2. Schoolboy Q – Oxymoron well known rapper- Front of album Cover
■ Schoolboy Q is an American hip hop recording
artist. He has 3 studio albums.This is his latest
album Oxymoron.
■ Where he is a well known musician the name of his
album is bigger than his name. As his name is well
known he is advertising his album rather than
himself.
■ The background on this is simple although this
makes the white mask and hat stand out. He is in
the centre of the frame at which still advertises
himself as he is the most important person.This is
something on our front album cover that we are
likely to have C.DOT centre of the frame.
■ The left hand side effect on the album cover I
personally really like as it gives the overall front
cover more personality. I think that it would look
good on the right hand side of the front cover
aswell.

3. Schoolboy Q - oxymoron back of album cover
■ As you can see from the back cover the black
background is resembled from the front cover.
■ However unlike the front cover it does not
show schoolboy Q as the centre of attention
but the women on the throne.This could be
linked to some of the songs in the album at
which we can only speculate. In our back
cover we are likely to have lots of images of
Connor himself in different outfits as we are
advertising Connor as this is his first album.
■ On our Back cover we will need to add our
websites and social media accounts, a
barcode and our record label companies.This
is something which is shown in Schoolboy Q’s
back cover to the right.
■ There is a copyright sentence in the left hand
side which we also likely to have on our album

4. Front of album cover for rapper in our genre
■ Kris Kasanova is an American rapper who
has 3 mixtapes with this album being his
first release as a new rapper.
■ As this is his first album his name has a
larger font size than the album title and
therefore this shows he is trying to
advertise his name.This is something we
are going to do in our front album cover
to introduce C.DOT.
■ He is at the centre of the frame
something we are looking to do however I
feel as though the background of this
cover does not look like a hip hop genre. I
feel as though he looks more of a Pop
singer due to the lighter colours in the
background.

5. Back of album cover for rapper in our genre
■ He is the main focus on the back of the album
cover as he covers half of the image.We also
are likely to have Connor on the back of the
album as he is the centre of attention.
■ Kris Kasanova has his record labels shown and
the copyright lines on the back of the cover.
However unlike Schoolboy Q he does not have
a barcode. Kris also have his websites in the
bottom right hand corner which is advertising
himself.
■ I personally dislike the back cover for this as
again I don’t feel as though this suits the
genre. It is similar to the front cover and
follows the same theme which I think is crucial
that the front and back cover link well
together. Although overall I feel as though this
does not fit the genre well.

6. Front of album cover for English artist
■ James Devlin better known as Devlin his
music name, is an English rapper from
Dagenham, London, England.This album
is his first.
■ Similar to both front album covers shown
above there is an image of the main artist
with the title of there album and there
name. Devlin on the right as this is his
first album his name has a larger font size
than the album name. C.DOT will have a
larger font than the album title.
■ This front cover promotes Devlin as an
artist very well and the style of his music
links with the front cover.

7. Back of album cover for English artist
■ This is Devlin’s back of album cover and
it has all of his songs on the back.We
will need to think of name of songs for
our album cover. Unlike the front
album cover there is no image of Devlin
himself but instead a young boy
running.
■ At the bottom of the cover he has his
record labels and his website. He also
has some text at copyright to the songs
on the CD itself.
■ I personally dislike the back of this
album cover as it does not really
advertise devlin as an artist and for his
first album it is quite strange to have an
image of someone else.