Researching Ancillary Products - Looking in the inside of Digipaks

Inside of Digipaks

I decided to take a look inside various digipaks to look at some of the features generally included.

I decided to take a look inside the Pixie Lott album. In the inside panel of her album , I noticed that on top of her CD included the following features:

1. Pixie's signature style font ( the letter 'X' used).
2. Tracklist of the Pixies songs featured on the album
3. Copyright Information
4. Logos of the record labels associated with Pixie.

Pixie uses bright red for her CD panel which contrasts against the silver font.The colours used translate throughout the rest of her digipak. I felt that it was different that the inside panel of the digipak contained the tracklist. Usually the tracklist is positioned at the back panel of the album. I felt the 'X' taken from Pixie's name , was a creative element to add. The use of the 'X' gives split meanings. 1 meaning could be a x meaning a kiss , showing love to her fans , the other meaning is the 'X' relating it back to her name.

This photo is off the front panel of the Pixie Lott album. You can see that the style of the 'X' featured in her name is the same 'X' used for the inside of her digipak. This shows that the design of the her digipak is continues. It also identifies that its copyrighted as it has her signature font type.

Lily Allen uses the same design featured on the front panel of her album. The features included within the inside panel include the artist name , name of album and logos of record labels associated with the artist. The design used for Lily's digipak is a futuristic , comical design which is followed through in the inside of the digipak. Her name is designed using a comical font , this font used is generally seen with superhero comic strips. It reminds me of the font used in a batman comic. The inside gives a sharp , edgy feel as it uses a black and white colour scheme which makes it pop out. The font looks 3D which is quite creative.

This photo is off the front panel of Lily Allen's digipak. As you can see the font used for her name is the same font carried over inside the digipak.

The inside of Kate Nash digipak is in the design of a collage of different images of the artist and items associated with the artist in an effective way. The creativity used throughout Kate's digipak is followed through to the inside of her digipak. She maintains the colours used on the front panel of her digipak and maintains the same effect used. The features include the artist name , name of the album , artist image and copyright information. I thought it was quite different seeing the image of the artist on top of the CD aswel as seeing the copyright information.

This photo is off the front panel of Kate Nash's digipak. As you can see the design and colour scheme is carried over inside the digipak.