Research into similar products: Intitial Research for Digipaks

Typical conventions of alternative rock and indie rock album and digipak covers:

Examples of alternative rock and indie rock digipak covers that conform to these conventions:

1. Simplistic colour scheme:

2.Simplistic design:

3. Few or no characters:

4. Different colours for band name compared to the rest of the cover: (Colourful and plain black)

5. Hidden meanings: One X represents the outsiders (the 'wrongs' in a big group of 'corrects' represented by the ticks) all coming together as one.

6. Title to explain to the audience: (This is a compilation album)

7. Bold simplistic fonts for the band name:

8. Opposite fonts for an album title: Serif and sand serif change.

Researching these covers has been extremely helpful to me for deciding on which type of digipak cover I will concentrate on. 

My favourites are the covers with black backgrounds (Arctic Monkeys, Catfish and the Bottlemen) as these seem to give the biggest impact as the colours contrast. Album covers similar to these also allow creative control as the protruding colours can be independent of the background, unlike the Blur album, for example, which has a more complicated background than the rest of the covers I have researched.