Evolution of

my Digipak

Ewa

Bryszkiewicz

This was my very first idea for a digipak. When picking the song and analysing the lyrics I wanted to design artwork that matched the theme of the song, at the time I did not know that we had to invent our own artist so I put ‘the ordinary boys’ as the artists (they are the actual artists of the song we used in our video .

The idea behind this artwork is that the band are ‘ordinary’ guys, as their name suggests so I wanted very plain and simple not flashy artwork. The clock refers to the name of the song ‘nine2five’ and the colours were kept very monotone and matched together.

This is the first sketch I made for the artwork – I then took the design and created a digital version of it in Photoshop and I changed it little bit.

Here are some more sketches that I made at the beginning. They follow the similar theme as the previous sketch. Portraying the band as ordinary, suggesting they have ordinary boring jobs such as bin men (represented by the rubbish bin) or some accounting/office work (shown by the ID tag)

The tag here has no id picture. It was meant to be a silhouette of a man with a question mark –going with the theme that the band are anonymous or ‘ordninary’. Just like most of office workers and men in suits seem to be.

This is the first artwork I did for the artist I created. I Chose the name ‘Anonymous X’ because It sounded urban and I felt fitted my idea of what the artist image was going to be.The idea behind this artwork is that the artist would be hip hop/rap/urban and one of the things I associate with that scene is graffiti, so I chose to make the font for the artwork in the style of some graffiti and the background a brick wall as is common in the more urban areas .

The colours I chose were meant to stand out but at the same time look natural , like graffiti would. I did this on Photoshop, using images I found on the internet, if I wanted to make this my official design I would have had to take them myself . I didn’t end up using this design because I felt that it was to simple and I didn't like it that much. Plus I though it would be better to use a picture of the actual artist on the front cover.

The design on the left was one I edited a while back, using an easy online photo editing software, I liked the idea of the artwork featuring the artist but not showing him fully and thus making him look ‘anonymous’ and therefore mysterious and kind of hipster. I really liked this design but I decided to change it as It sometimes looked too dark on some computer screens and the name couldn’t be read clearly .

The design on the right is a quick prototype I did in Photoshop, my skills were still quite basic and I was just looking to see what looked good.

This is what my design looked like in its final stages. This was all done in Adobe Photoshop CS6, and as can be seen my skills have improved slightly and the artwork looks more developed and professional as compared to the prototype. Although I still felt that it was missing something, so later I added a border to make the images look like ripped scraps of paper.

Both the front cover and the back cover are keeping with one theme and they fit together nicely. The idea behind this design is that the artist is meant to look trapped or ‘quarantined’ in the image referring to the title and the theme of the album. The background also looks urban and that helps to further create the image of this artist.

Finally this is what the artwork looks like finished. The front cover features the name of the artist and title of the album, plus an ‘explicit content’ logo

The back cover had all the usual information such as the track list and the barcodes and such plus the logo of the producing company and some copyright information at the bottom

The font I used is called ‘impact label’ I downloaded it from a website which has free fonts.

This ‘explicit content’ logo I found on Google images. I wanted to incorporate it into my artwork because I feel like my artist would have that sort of content on his CD’sI used Adobe Photoshop CS6 to put together

the pieces for my artwork, I then used pixlrexpress, an online photo editing software to add a cool border on the edges of the image

This is the original image I took and started out with. I chose this one because I like the angle it is at and I liked how if showed the artist.

This is the base image of the back cover which I cropped and edited it. I took this myself when we were out shooting a part of our video. I chose this one to have for the back cover of my digipakbecause I felt like it matched the theme of the front cover, the pictures were also taken near the same place, so the front and the back cover have continuity.

This logo is a qr code, It can be seen in a lot of places nowadays and is used as a marketing tool. I took the picture from Google.

I wanted my back cover to look authentic so I goggled and image of a barcode to add to the back, because real cd have those

This is a company logo I quickly designed to put on the back of the cover to make it look more realistic and professional.