This document provides details on the design of a digipak for the album "Jamie Thorn and The mystery Pacific" by Yasmin Belkhayat. Key design elements include a sea of thorns on the cover to represent the album title, lyrics from a song placed on a pirate ship flag on the back cover to unify the front and back, and photo reels on the inside panels to give insight into the band's life. The document discusses how these design choices were meant to fit the folk/rock genre conventions while also being original.

1. Photoshop Digipak –
Jamie Thorn and The mystery Pacific
Yasmin Belkhayat

2. I decided to use the convention of having artwork on the digipak by playing on the name of ‘Jamie I decided to make the main body of text flow with the branch rather than
thorn and the mystery pacific’ by having a sea of thorns which I think works well and has been linked put it in a standard block in order to unify it with the artwork and images.
in with the inside pages through a swirl that branches out across the panels – similar to a tree. This is This works better because it looks more professional and may suggest that
in keeping of the nature conventions of the folk/rock genre. they don’t tick to the norms. They are original.
Inside left panel Inside center (CD placement) Inside right panel 2
Front Cover Back Cover Inside right panel 1
I decided to use yellow for the front cover font Due to the nautical theme and the use of a pirate The idea of having photo reels I think has worked quite
because of my research into a variety of similar ship I thought it would be a good idea to unify the well as it allows the audience to connect better with the
fronts and colours. Although it does not fit the back cover with the front by placing the lyrics of the band and give them more of an insight into the artists life.
stereotype digipak in using earthy colours it links in song onto the flag of the crows nest. It is also linked It also brings together the whole digipak and how its was
well with the theme of royalty and regency subtly via the title which has been placed on the back but made and the ideas behind it. This is a convention that has
which relates to the track used in our music video. slightly smaller. been seen on other digipak’s such as ‘Florence and the
Machine’ who used it more like a collage, however we
have decided to play about with the idea a bit.