A digipak is a type of CD packaging that consists of a foldable paperboard or cardboard outer cover with one or more plastic trays inside to hold a CD. It provides protection while showing cover artwork. The documents describe various album covers, some using digipaks and others using standard jewel case packaging. Designs include hand-drawn illustrations, animated GIFs and photographs with graphic effects. Artists mentioned include Josh Record, Childish Gambino, Gorillaz, MF Doom and Black Sabbath. Their related websites are also examined and described.

1. CD digipak pack
Kofoworola Williams
Media A2

2. What is a digipak
A Digipak style packaging
normally the CD singles or
special editions of CD albums.
Digipaks typically consist of a
gatefold (book-
style)paperboard or card stock
outer binding, with one or
more plastic trays capable of
holding a CD or DVD attached
to the inside the generic
"digipack" came to be used to
describe all soft CD packaging.

3. Josh Record
Joshua Peter Record born on 20th November 1987 is a
British singer/songwriter who has released one album,
Pillars, and one EP.
His album “Pillars” doesn’t seem to have any kind of
digipak but a music CD cover. However from what can be
seen it is a simple photo of the artist with a range of
different effects placed upon it such as:-
• Fading
• A increase of transparency (white )
• A kind of wave of green and yellow.
• A reddish, purple colour used on his neck
Although this isn’t a bad CD cover, it isn’t the kind of cd
cover that I would personally do, for example I don’t think
I would make white a dominant colour on my cover.

4. Childish Gambino
“Because the Internet” is the second album by
hip hop artist Donald Glover, under the stage
name Childish Gambino. The album was released
on December 10, 2013 by Glassnote Records and
Island Records. The recording process began in
2012 and ended in October 2013.
The cover is an animated .GIF of Glover staring at
the viewer, which quickly fuzzes out after a few
seconds (with strong brush-like strokes blurring
his features to the point where he is
unrecognizable) as if it had jumped at the viewer,
in a process similar to zooming in. The .GIF
format is a reference to the Internet, which
made it popular and frequent. The physical
version of the album functions with lenticular
printing to mimic the animation effect.

5. Gorillaz
Gorillaz are an English virtual band created in 1998
by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. The band
consists of four animated members: 2D (lead vocals,
keyboard), Murdoc Niccals (bass guitar), Noodle
(guitar, keyboard, and backing vocals) and Russel
Hobbs (drums and percussion). These members are
completely fictional and are not personas of any
"real life" musicians involved in the project.
The cover is drawn, which has no similarity to Josh
Record’s album cover pillars besides the use of a side
close up shot of each band member. What I like
about this CD ad is the way it shows the characters
in the band, for example it has them all with frowns
on their faces showing the seriousness of the band.
Which is interesting as the band’s songs aren’t all
depressing songs.

6. MF Doom
• Daniel Dumile born 9 January
1971 is a British hip hop recording
artist best known for his "super
villain" stage persona and unique
lyrics. Daniel Dumile has taken on
several stage names in his career,
most notably as Metal Face
DOOM or MF DOOM.
• This album cover is another one
which is drawn, it is a re design of
the original cover which has the
artist MF Doom. The cover shows
a influence to sliver age comics
which is unique especially since
this genre of rap doesn’t really
mention or appeal to the typical
comic reader.

7. Music website research
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8. Josh record
Josh Record has a very interesting
website, in the fact that it lacks any real
features on the site, for example, the
only thing that is accessible is just social
networks such as :-
• Facebook
• YouTube
• Twitter
• Sound cloud
• Spotify
The site does have the unique font for
his name however not for much else
and since this is the only page whether
he is using constant colours is not clear.
http://joshrecord.com/

9. Max frost
Max Frost is a producer and songwriter of indie
rock and pop music from Austin, Texas, signed
to Atlantic Records. Max frost’s website from
the looks of things has a very good site as it is
loaded with tons of content from things like:-
• Tours
• Music videos
• Photos
• Store
As well as all of his social networks where he
can be found unlike Josh Record using also
snapchat and Instagram.
Max Frost makes his website have a constant
colour coding of black, white and grey. Having
it remain that way as well as the unique font
for his name at the homepage as well as for
other parts of the site.
http://maxfrost.net/

10. Black Sabbath
Unlike the other artists I have looked at they
are quite new and don’t have a lot of history,
however Black Sabbath being well known for
an number of years use this to their
advantage even on websites. Using old
pictures of when the band was younger to
give a retro vibe or nostalgic feel to the site.
Also having social networks and other parts
of the site which use animation to look
interactive through things like pictures of the
old times in the band, a scroll to the left and
right of the site and interactive buttons.
Black Sabbath also use the typical colours
associated with the band which is black and
purple used throughout the site.
http://www.blacksabbath.com/welcome.html

11. Cee Lo Green
Thomas DeCarlo Callaway born in
30 May 1974 better known as Cee
Lo Green is an American singer,
rapper, songwriter, record
producer and actor.
Similar to all the other websites I
have seen this one too has the use
of a social network and has all of
their icons on show, but unlike the
other sites Cee lo’s shows updates
similar to a blog about what has
been up to and what is to come
such as tours and performances he
has done.
http://www.ceelogreen.com/news