Research into Digipaks and their conventions

1. Digipaks
TOM SMITH

2. What is a Digipak?
 A Digipak is a style of packaging used for a single CD or DVD disk or
multiple disks. A typical Digipak will fold out like a book or open up on
both sides with the disk usually in the middle section.
 The outside cover of a Digipak is mostly made of card or paper whilst the
disk holder is plastic to stop the disk from bending.
 On the outside covers there usually images of the band/artist with their
name and title of the album made large for people to read.

3. Design
Digipaks are designed to fold into a
square like regular CD cases.
The front of a Digipak will consist of the title and any
names associated with it, for example a band will have
their name printed below album name, the cover will also
feature either and image of the band which will represent
them in some way, or an image which can be related to
the title of the album.Similarly to the front, the back may feature an
image of the band of artist or an extended view of
the image on the front cover, with most of the
information being kept inside.
The inside cover will likely feature the contents of the
disk inside, whether that’s a list of all the songs an
album or shortened down version of the plot for film.

4. Styles
 Digipaks can come in different styles. The number of panels on a digipak
largely depends on the amount of disks it will hold. For example which will
only 1 disk might have three panels or a digipak which holds 4 disks might
have 6 panels.
 The design of a digipak will also largely depend on one factor, which is the
artist or type of film. Most artists are known for their own styles so will use
that style to promote themselves in the form of art on a digipak, similarly a
company like Disney are known for making kids films so on one of their
digipaks they might have characters from animated Disney films.