Digipak Development

After I had started to consider what digipaks were and what we should make ours look like, for the image and our target audience, I started to come up with some brainstorms of the ideas and develop them.

When it came to designing them, I switched some of the images around. The shot of the band is now going to be on the front, and the two rings are going to be on the inside. I then had to think about fonts, so for inspiration I looked at their original one and tried to find one that was similar, so we could represent them, but at the same time represent the image that we wanted to give them.

Original Logo.

The new font that we decided on for our digipak, with the new band name.


After I had developed all of the ideas, I began to design some of them. I decided to start with the back first and work my way across.
The design for the back was bottles with an ashtray next to it. I started off by taking the photo. I took it in my back garden against a brick wall so that it looked abstract and replicated the 'rough, grimy' feel to our image.

This is the original image that I took.
I was planning to edit these all the way along, I wanted to make it look more 'rock and roll' and abstract.

This was my second idea, I experimented with different tecniques like contrast and exposure. But I felt that I could improve with the edit. 

This is the final image for the back cover of the digipak. We wanted it to look professional, so after experimenting with photoshop, I came up with this.
I put a black and white effect over it with glowing edges and also experimented with the saturation.
When it came to the text I rotated it and put the Opacity down.
After I had done this I put surface blur over the top of it, so the text looks like it is actually in the bottle.