This document provides examples and analysis of album artwork that could inspire the design of the requester's own album packaging. It summarizes various album covers, noting elements like color schemes, layouts, use of imagery, and continuity between front and back covers. Key elements that intrigued the requester include locations incorporating nature themes, abstract designs, and methods for relating the front and back covers through consistent visuals and fonts.

1. Market Research
Abigail Kernaghan
Promotional
Package

2. Layout
20/09
Back CoverFront Cover
Left Inside Cover Right Inside Cover
Inside Cover

3. Examples - Bastille
20/09
The use of locations and roads are effective, and I
would like to include this style in my design. Also it
incorporates a colour scheme without seeming fake
or exaggerated. These album/single covers are also
famous for the conjunction between the band’s
name and the name of the song – most effectively
used in the ‘Icarus’ cover. Although this is very
inspiring, I will find it difficult to incorporate this
theme, whilst still making it individual to my design,
so I will instead try to use this method to encourage
a more interesting layout of fonts to what I would
initially have used.
This is an incredibly abstract and unusual
album cover, the vocalist is included, as
well as a 60s vinyl vibe. The colour scheme
is easily memorable and iconic. There is a
blank expression on the lead singer’s head,
to cement the idea that he is disembodied
and no longer living. The use of the font
for the words ‘good grief’ is out of
character for the usual design of Bastille’s
album, but in this retro context, I think it
works very effectively.
The front and back cover of this album
are clearly related, and I am very fond
of this design. Although not taken by
the same perspective, angle or zoom,
there is something unifying and
warming about the whole band being
included as opposed to their previous
albums, in which there were either no
people, or simply the lead vocalist. It
also gives opposite effects, with the
front cover being a dangerous scene
packed with adrenaline, whereas the
back cover is centred in a more internal
space, with more comfort but also
apprehension.

4. Examples – The Script
These album/single covers are my
favourite of all I have researched.
There is a clear colour scheme and
filters used for atmospheric effect.
With my album being renamed to
‘rituals’ I think that the authentic
and rustic feel to these covers
would be highly effective for my
Digipak. They are very simplistic,
and the only image included are of
one or two people’s hands. The
clever use of space and close-ups
means these images are far from
boring.
This is also a unique design for an album
cover, with the 3 members of the band
combined into one headshot. The colour
scheme is fairly monochromatic, in a grayscale
style, luckily this matches the artists’
expressions well, and when combined with the
font and images, creates a highly atmospheric
effect. The use of a faded version of the image
imposed onto the back cover behind the track
list is something I am very interested in, but
had not previously considered.
This was The Script’s first album, and therefore their first
designed Digipak. There is a obvious use of vibrant colour, which
is not reflected in the back cover of the album. However, I like
the use of lines to create structure on the back cover, which
works well with the use of solely capital letters to make a
uniformed track list.
22/09

5. Examples - Kodaline
This album design is definitely striking,
and contains colours I would consider
interesting and mysterious. I am very fond
of the style, however it is not something I
wish to reflect into my images or design –
this is because the album has quite a
supernatural feel, whilst my Digipak is
based around nature, freedom and unity.
This album cover is significantly
different, despite having elements
of the same blues and greens. The
atmosphere is definitely more
calming and idyllic, when compared
to the mysterious and unsettling
feel to the other Digipak. This
album is more relatable to my idea
for a design, as it includes elements
of nature and unaltered space,
which basically summarises my
ideal location for the shooting of
the images.
The reverse of this Digipak is
easily recognisable as matching
the cover, due to the
continuation of the colour
scheme, and also the relation of
the fonts. The positioning of
the track list being central is
also something I wish to imitate
when structuring my album, as
it gives an easy chronological
view for the reader.
The back cover of ‘In a Perfect
World’ is essentially the same image
as included in the front cover, but
zoomed in to show more detail. It
also completely changes the
proportion of the sky and sea
included, which is effective, though
I’m not sure if it was intentional.
This is simplistic, but not something
I would like to use for my Digipak,
because although I am fond of
continuity, I think this is just far too
easy and basic looking.
26/09