Digi-pack Album Covers Analysis

Here I have been researching in the different types of digipacks related around the genre of rock and the bands we have been also researching into. This will help us plan and organize our own album covers overall for the band and music video we produced.

Front Covers:

This is the first album that the rock band group Nirvana released which was back in late 1988

Plain design and contains very little to justify the band of what they are or do in terms of the genre, don't know what to expect from them

Even though it is limited I have managed to come up with some theory's or meanings towards the fact that the band are trying make

Black background, mystery, who are they? (there new to scene create tension and curiosity towards audiences as at the time they were new to the scene)

The use of colours on this album cover both the black of the background  and the grey for the font gives the impression to audiences of a dark theme perhaps of the music or attitudes of the band members.

This is Green Day's American idiot album cover released mid 2004

This contains more will the illustrated image to make the cover more interesting and attractive to get the audiences attention.

Black/plain background makes you focus on the graphic artwork as well as keeping to the same style as Nirvana's album cover above.

Red font colour used for the American idiot logo resembles blood

Grenade is in the shape of a heart, when the pin is pulled out the heart will explode also relating to the American idiot title as it is an odd concept to do.

Text of the name of the band and album is pushed to the side in order to show the image, it also fits in nicely by it being stacked that way.



The most recent rock band album to be released is Linkin Parks Minutes To Midnight that came out in the early time of year May 2007

Black and white theme, retro can be related to our music video itself as we used the same effect to show some of the bands flashbacks

Outlines of artists can only be seen in black, staying hidden, rebellious attitude as they may have displayed something bad perhaps

White background is deemed to be pure challenging the conventions of the rock genre as well as being original as green day and nirvana are similar in the type of background etc...

Logo name is displayed at the top to show the image and also dominating something I mentioned before with it (post here)

Back Covers and Spines:


This is the back cover of Green day's American idiot.

Plain black has similar relations with the front cover in order to match together as they are all connected

Parental advisory and explicit content, it is clearly noted that the audience should read it  to see that they are relatable to the rock genre for being rebellious.

Name of the band and album displayed on the spine of the album, this is used as the CD's may be stacked on their side therefore the audience can see the name in order to find what they are looking for.

Foo fighters, The colour and the shape back album cover.

The lyrics of the song are lined up against the line of circles this fits in nicely and is layout probably in order to leave necessary space.

Plain dark blue background, suggesting that they are not to rebellious for example.

Colours are accorded by blue, white and red. This is styled by background being blue, red being shapes and numbers and text being white. This is therefore organised.

This is the back album cover of Red hot chilli pepper's I'm with you.

White background, plain not to much to say about them but also displays the fact of being pure.

Name of the song and band, words are going down the spine instead of along, audiences might stack their CD's along each other therefore they are to see and read it clearly.

Keeping to the black and white theme supporting my theory as well as sense of retro with the sharp typed out text.


It is important to understand different album covers overall in order to get a concept the artist or band are trying to imply to the audience. As well as knowing how it should be laid and positioned out in order to fit in elements of the content in with each other to make it appearing attractive to the audience member. We will also need to apply elements that all of them have such as copyright issues, studios involved etc in order to define ourselves as original. We have learnt and will incorporate ideas from this to narrow down the alternative designs of our digipack we have already so that we can relate to our research of why we did specific features overall.