Overview of "Do's and Don't" of design work - Planning

The basic do's and don't's of design work are the following;

-Use relevant/clear photos that won't pixelate
-Keep a simple colour scheme
-Make sure the images/font/text relate to the genre
-Use the proper conventions and integrate them well
-Be creative


I will take this in to account when putting my digipak and advert together.

Short list of fonts,colours,layout and design ideas - Planning

Below are my short list of potential ideas for my digipack and advertisement.

Fonts
Abadi MT condensed
Andalus
Bauhaus93
Britannic bold

I believe these relate to the genre best.

Colours

Light shades

Tones:
Black
Grey
White

For a good contrast and balance.



Layout&Design

Like many front panels I want a shot of the artist herself.On the back I would also like an image of the artist to feature.On the inside I would like either a double panel of a city scape or a panel for the city scape and another image of the artist.

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Analysis of three digipaks and three advertisements (research and planning)

During our lesson time we analysed digipaks and advertisements from previous students. Here a three digipaks and advertisements from established artists that I will be analysing and researching.

Here is the digipak and advertisement for Madonna.

The colour scheme and fonts is conventional to the genre is represents. It has quite a few vibrant energetic colours which aims to show the style of the music and Madonna herself. I noticed that on the advertisement, there are photos of her performing live. This gives the audience a taste of what it will be like to go on one of her shows.  There are quite a few different colours, however the over use of colours is at least maintained in every part of the digipack, adding to the wacky editing, it makes the digipak still look professional. 

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practise digipak

During the summer, we did a practise digipaks.
Here is mine.
I was aiming for a "Hipster" type digipak. 
The use of glitter, triangles, nebula and cats are something that are directly linked with the hipster style. The track listing, also conforms to the hipster style and has a direct reference to films in the hipster style.
Song titles such as "Cellar Door", "Grandma Death", "Lucid Dreaming" are all direct references to the popular cult film, Donnie Darko.
"Kurt Lives" is Kurt Vonnegut who is an American writer who wrote, "Slaughterhouse-Five" and many others; he was known for his humanist beliefs.
Even though it was just a practise digipak, a lot of work was put in to ensuring and conveying the hipster style. As we didn't have a song to work from, we didn't have a genre, so instead we decided to go for a certain style in which the genre type was suggested, but not set in stone.

I did a 6 panel digipak as I felt that there should be equal amount of coverage for each member as even though there is a lead singer, they are both equal and they are both the front women of the band.
I found adding text to a background without a consistant colour all through very, very difficult as with many text colours, it didn't show up, or they blended with the background making it very difficult to read. I also had some trouble with the placement of text and getting both Jasmine and myself on the front cover without cutting a lot of body parts off.
From this I have learnt that perhaps a plain background is the better option, and the artist being in the centre because it then allows the person editing to move the artist from left to right, right to left or which ever way they want the placement. We plan on doing  a photoshoot for the our current digipak and we will take in consideration these factors.

Digipak practice-Planning

Summer Edit

During the summer we learned about digipacks and started practising how to use the software that is needed to make one.

                                                   Back Cover

As you can see the image is edited and was planned carefully.

The elements needed to complete this panel would be the track listing which would have went on the right hand side in a dark font.

The producers,website and bar code are also needed to complete this cover.

                                                     Front Cover 

   This panel was also carefully planned but as you can see the name of the artist and the album title is missing. However, i spent a lot of time editing this image which shows me what time scale is used for this part of a promotional package.

This exercise was about what not to do for making a digipack. The images used were composed awfully and the moral was to plan shots carefully and make sure they are perfect in everyway possible. These images were also unflattering so once again a lot of time was spent editing to make this mediocre digipack.