Digipak research of my genre

For our album artwork we want to keep include lots of dark tones And we want it to have a urban city feel as this is what are music video is like and also the genre of music. in terms of artwork I feel like our covers shouldn't be too busy and be quite simple and minimalistic as this song is very chaotic I think having a more toned down I'm at work cover would be better suited.


Some out of artworks that I have researched into are the killers album artworks their album artwork is very simple and they have a running theme with there font this creates not only continuity between the albums but also is something for their fans to recognise every time they see that font they think of the killers it's almost like their logo like for example The Rolling Stones they have an iconic image that people know them for and anytime anyone sees that logo they'll think of the rolling stones and anytime anyone sees that logo they'll think of The Rolling Stones so even though we are only creating album artwork for one album I think having something on there that could be repeated in future albums would be a good idea.

This strokes album artwork is a very striking image it's very dark and very simplistic there's not a huge amount going on so you can really focus on the main image.

The Arctic Monkeys album artwork it's also very simplistic and minimalistic on one of the covers that is just a symbol in black and white with the band name on the front in an interesting font and on the other one it's the lead person in the band and it's just a portrait of them again this is in black and white this is definitely some key inspiration for my album artwork design.

Some key conventions of album artwork in my genre are dark tones they usually have the band on the front and they I usually positioned with the singer more predominantly in the front or the person that's more well known on the front. this is to help sell the album as usually it's not necessarily the look of the problem it's more who is in the band.


Things that you need to include on your album artwork is the name of the band the name of the song you need all the legal information on the back if this song has explicit words than it needs a parental advisory sticker on the front on the back there needs to be a list of all the songs and the track numbers and also it needs to include a barcode on the back.


Keeping a running theme throughout my campaign is very important I think that in terms of my album artwork I'll keep the colour schemes very similar to the colour of all music video shoot it was black and white and also had glimpses of blue in there I think if I do it through the colour it's subtle but also enough to pick up they are altogether. And also using the actual band members in the all work will also bridge the gap.