Analysing Student Work - Digi Pack

The overall template of this digi pack is very plain: you fold it horizontally then vertically. It doesn't include a booklet like the digi packs that I've looked at, and belongs either in a very thin case or the whole thing could be made out of cardboard.

This students digi pack reminds me of the Madness digi pack, because of the montage of photographs. The CD of this digi pack is plain and simple with clear black writing on white. It is rather contrasting against the montage of photos for the front cover, but it suggests that they didn't want anything flashy - the photos seem down to Earth and the CD isn't anything special.

The album title 'Crash' is in block capital letters diagonally across the front cover, with a scratched up appearance. It is the main focus and the obscured effect makes it seem as though it is being pushed outwards, like a 'crash'. The band name 'You Me At Six' is in the same font as the album title, but is made a lot smaller and put in the bottom left hand corner. This usually suggests that the band is either not well known or very well known - like how on Mraz's CD covers his name is usually small or not even on there.

The back cover of this design (bottom left square) includes the typical layout of the back covers I've analysed: Numbered list of the songs on the disc, lightened image as a background, barcode, record labels, social websites and official band website. It is a clear layout with similar colours used to the front cover, such as the white writing and hazy browns and greens in the image.



The inside image is the same design to the front cover, but isn't blurred and darkened. Some digi packs do reuse images, like the Christmas one - it reuses the same image from the front cover on the background of the disc.

Overall the design this student has created fits in with the typical design of real digi packs - a creative front cover and a clear back cover, with the whole design colour coordinated and professionally finished.