The document discusses digipaks, which are CD packaging made of cardstock or heavy paper that opens like a book. It notes several key considerations for designing a digipak, including logo, font, layout, images, and reflecting the artist's image. Common digipak conventions are also outlined, such as having 4-6 panels, featuring the artist/album on the front, including a song list, and maintaining a consistent theme. Pros and cons of digipaks versus jewel cases are then compared before providing examples of effective digipak designs.

2.  What is a Digipak?
 It is a type of CD packaging made of card stock or heavy paper/cardboard
material. Digipaks usually flip open like a book, or it has three parts, so
that one portion of the packaging opens to the right and one to the left
with the CD in the centre portion.
In order for us to make create our digipak we have to take a lot of things
into consideration:
 Logo
 Font Styles
 Layout
 Images to be used.
 It reflects the image of the artist

3. When analyzing Digipaks, I noticed some conventions of the product,
that could be useful information when creating your own.
Here are the conventions I noticed..
 It had either 4 or 6 panels
 A main image was placed on the front either being a logo, symbol,
image to represent the artist or band.
 A song list was at the back to show what songs were on the CD.
 The logo of the production company.
 Barcode of the product.
 Name of the album and artist in the form of text or pictures.
 Same theme running throughout.
Before creating my own, I decided to analyse and research into other
Digipaks.

4. Pros Cons
 Digipaks can be at times great  The cardboard packaging is less
visual products for the artist/bands resistant to abrasion than jewel
i.e. providing fans with exclusive
footage and live tour footage. cases, it tends to show signs of
 The trays in Digipaks often break wear relatively quickly
much more often than in jewel  The digipak sleeves with 3 sleeves
cases because the paper doesn't for more design options, however
provide as much protection for the these are more expensive than
disc. traditional jewel cases – so if bands
 Which means when the trays do are just starting out, looking for
break in digipaks, the disc falls out ways to cut manufacturing costs is
of the bottom, because unlike jewel
cases, there is nothing to hold it in important
 Digipaks can be more  Although digipaks can be
environmentally friendly than the environmentally friendly, they aren’t
jewel plastic cases because they always made from recycled
can be made from recycled material materials

5. This is a flat plan template
of a Digipak . To create my
own Digipak, I would need
to create a similar template
to this one, with correct
measurements and with 6
panels.
Hopefully our end product would look
similar to the image on the left. As you
can see the Digipak has all the
conventions I picked out on the previous
slide.

7. This particular Digipak
focuses on one theme
pattern with the bury
lights.
Simple layout which is The use of a simple prop
effective as it’s not over of the rose interlinks with
crowed for the audience the main front image of
to understand. the tree.
This Digipak focuses very The prop of the mask
much on one person portrays the character to
which I'm guessing is the be mysterious . It could
artist. mean that he’s trying to
hide his identity.
The text style used gives a
sense of a rock theme to
the album.

8. This Digipak is based on
an abstract look which I
really took a liking to.
It works really well in
creating a different look
compared to the other The simplicity of the
Digipaks. colours works well with
the title of the album. As
the blue links in with the
The title is set in bold to water and the red with the
set attention towards it danger aspect of it.
which is effective. The
star adds to the abstract
look that there going for.