Digipak Analysis 1

What is a digipak?
A digipak is a CD packaging style often used for singles or special editions of CD albums. Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book style) paperboard or card stock binding with one or more trays inside capable of holding a CD.
Digipaks are commonly used throughout the modern music industry.

Here is an analysis of a Crystal Fighters Digipak

This is the Digipak for the album "Star of Love" by the acoustic/indie band Crystal Fighters. The front cover pictured here shows the album artwork for the band. They have used either illustration or digital illustration to create a fantasy scene consisting of three scare crow like figures amongst a rural setting. This creates a mysterious fantasy theme to the album, the viewer is already intrigued by the strangeness of the artwork, attracting them to the CD.  The font of the band name is in a curling, authentic looking style with a multitude of colours. This suggests age and also again fantasy. This mystical world image is enforced by the multi coloured sky.

The inside cover depicts another illustrated image of sunlight streaming through an overgrown window. This image again represents a fantasy world that is taking over thee norm. I feel these images suit the sound of Crystal Fighters which is somewhat unconventional. The right fold over shows a scarecrow character up close as well as a thank you message again in the authentic font that looks aged and mystical.

The CD itself continues with the colour theme and fantasy artwork. The colour scheme throughout this digipak is mainly of pink, yellow, brown and green, with hints of blue and red. This colourful combination and the use of the sun presents a very happy image that is associated with nature and the outdoors.

 The back cover is left plainer than the rest of the digipak. It includes the track listing running down the middle against a soft coloured pink, yellow and blue background that echoes a setting/rising sun in the sky.  There are no photographic images of the band on any of the digipak artwork. This shows that the band are successful/well known enough to be able to only provide the name and be recognised. However it also shows the slightly alternate nature of the band and their music which helps them to stand out from the crowd within their genre. The themes of fantasy, dreams, nature, sunlight and the rural countryside are prominent here.