Analysing Digi Packs - Madness

This digi pack is for an older pop band (1970s-1990s) called Madness. The front cover of the CD has the entire group posing, with a plain white background behind them and the title 'Complete Madness'. The clothing the Madness group are wearing is old fashioned suiting the era they are from:Tartan influenced by the punks, rounded old fashioned glasses, a red leather jacket, and a turtle neck jumper worn under a cream suit. The image was most likely taken 20 years ago as the group look young.

The back cover is decorated with a montage of photographs, sketches/doodles and objects. It holds a busy personalised style, again fitting punk. Punk fashion was a social art movement in the late 70s and 80s, where people would personalise and redesign their clothing to fit them as an individual. Like the Christmas digi pack and also any other typical CD cover, there is a list of songs which are included in the album in a column on the left. The back cover also mentions how it includes a '12 page full colour booklet' with comments from the group. Like other back covers to CD's, it includes a barcode, the record labels and copyrights.

Inside the Digi pack, it's CD on the right and booklet on the left like most Digi packs. Like the Christmas album however, the front cover is part of the booklet instead of being separate.

The disc design reflects upon the title of the album and group name 'Complete Madness' (The group name is Madness, and the 'complete ' before it refers to how the album has their greatest hits and also how it means the phrase 'complete madness'). It reflects the title as the string puppets are tangled together from being controlled by the group at the top. It is chaotic and unclear. Behind the disc, there is a montage of photos, doodles and objects again like the back cover.

The booklet inside is just like what the back cover said: 'includes 12 page full colour booklet with comments on each track from Madness'. The layout of each page is again montages of photos, doodles and objects. The inside from the back of the booklet includes a lift of the album songs again, but with extra information such as record labels and publishers. The back of the booklet includes quotes from the group in small writing. It is tricky to read and feels a bit pointless of being there when it is that small.