The document discusses and compares the album artwork and packaging (digipaks) of three different albums: 1) Coldplay's "Viva La Vida" features a picture of a revolution juxtaposed with modern font, appealing due to linking to the album's narrative while maintaining a painted effect. The artist is only included inside. 2) Arctic Monkeys' "AM" features a sound wave across the packaging without the band's image, intended to envision eyes and seem indie. Like "Viva La Vida" it does not include the logo on the front. 3) The 1975 album features vignetted images without the artist, using an effective font where letters in the band's name

1. Style File

2. Coldplay – Viva La Vida
The main cover of Viva La Vida
appeals to me due to the
juxtaposition of the picture of the
revolution, which links to the
narrative of the album, with the
modern style of font, which is still in-
keeping as it the effect of being
painted on. Also, by looking at the
front cover, you would not be aware
this is a Coldplay album unless you
know about the release as it does not
highlight the artist, apart from inside
the digipak.

3. Arctic Monkeys - AM
Similarly to Coldplay's ‘Viva La Vida’ digipak, the
Arctic Monkeys choose not to have their image on
the front of it. Instead there is a sound wave, which
runs across the whole marketing campaign for the
‘AM’ album. As seen in the image below the theme
wraps around the digipak but flattens off on the
back. I like the simplicity of this digipak, the way the
sound waves are formed make me envisage eyes,
which attracts me to the cover and is different to
anything I've seen before, which further enforces
the idea of being indie/ alternative.
The cover does not actually, include the Arctic
Monkeys logo on the front, which is similar to
Coldplays ‘Viva La Vida’, showing a recurring
theme within the genre.

4. The 1975
This digipak from The 1975 does
not include any images with the
artist, I like the style of the
images used, with the vignette
around the edges. The font used
is also effective, the the two E’s,
one reversed completes the
word The, further along the 5 is
finished by the main body of the
7, giving an indie look to the
digipak. Also, I like the black and
white theme, which has inspired
me to follow a dark, contrasted
theme for my own.