Research: Analysis of digipaks

  of R&B artists usually focus their digipak covers on themselves. They are usually simple by the use of tone and effect. 

 The Diary Of Alicia Keys

Front

                                    

The CD includes different keys laid on a white background these could simply connote 'the keys of her diary' as the album name is 'the diary of alicia keys' or either to create a link to her second name. 

BACK

                           

The back cover includes whole image of the piano and excludes the artists. This certainly shows the importance of the piano to the artists and it plays a great role in her life.  

Rihanna R Rated

Front 

Eventhough Rihanna is an R&B artist the cover of her digipak for this album mainly focuses on genre of rock as the image is created by the dark theme including the pose in severe black and white head shot. The letter R is placed on the right corner representing the firts letter of her name and the name of her album and it seems like a symbol to the cover. 

CD

The CD cover shows the continuos theme of dark black and grey colours. The main focus on this cover is the R in the centre as it reinforces the symbol. 


Back

The back cover also shows the characteristics of the rock music by the style that is been used. The artist is positioned as if she is interrupted whilst walking into the darkness. The back of the cover also lists what songs are featured in the album with the other artists  in the use of the same font used for the title. 

Usher Raymond V Raymond

Front

The front cover for this digipak is structured with of dark colour scheme of black, which the lighting on the artists reflects him clearly. The size and the font type makes the artist and the song name clear for audience to see. 

CD

The CD cover is held very simple as I believe the front and back covers contain image. The font type allows us to see that the CD is suitable for its cover as the structure of the type is kept the same, such as the use of R is reversed for each side on covers and on CD. 


Back

The back cover gives a clear view of where Usher is as the front cover is a close up of him leaning forward. The colour scheme is held the same as well as the use of font. 

All the images that is used within the digipak are usually manipulated in some way (effect) and usually have close or mid shots focused mainly on artists. 

A digipak is created by appropriate use of:

• Images 
• Font 
• Layout 
• Background 
• Text 
• Language
• Barcode 
• Copyright 
• Titles 
• Artist name 

Alicia Keys is a pianist and we get this impression clearly from the front cover of her digipak. The piano suggests that it is part of her and it represents the other half of her as the way its been positioned. Her confidence is highlighted by her staring straight as she is looking at the audience. 

CD