Ancillary: Digipack Plan

As mentioned in my previous posts I wanted to have an album cover with a logo or stand out image rather than a picture of the artist, despite going against typical codes and conventions of the indie/folk genre. The general idea is to have a hard plastic case with a booklet inside that has images of the artist on and the track list written on the back in the same font as the Artist's name on the front. At first, I was planning to create a logo but my friend Dan had recently gone to Amsterdam for an educational school trip and was showing me the pictures he had taken on his camera. One picture of some graffiti particularly stood out and I thought it'd look great as an album cover. There was also a picture of the graffiti from a different less zoomed in angle which I felt would suit the back cover great too. Dan gave me permission to use both images too which was great.

The concept I was aiming to achieve was actually giving the artist a logo in which people would recognise them by. A good modern example of a band that does something similar is the Red Hot Chili Peppers. This logo would be the face of Jake Bugg and people would associate him with it. Looking towards the future, the logo could make an appearance in music videos and perhaps on future album covers but in various different scenarios and places. Although the image itself is quite basic, I believe it will be really effective and stand out on shelves and online. The front cover of the album would include the artists name on also in black capital letters. As well as creating a digipak for the album, I had an idea of making a vinyl record for it too. If I did come to design it, the general sleeve would be the same but tiled across the front in four squares. Similar to The Smith's 'Meat Is Murder' record. To create the cover for my digipak I plan to use Photoshop 7.0.

Before actually creating the digipak, I quickly sketched out on paper a rough plan of what I wanted it to look like and include.