Digi Pack and website Lesson.

In the lesson on Tuesday, we started to talk about designing and making the digi pack and the website.  Phil expressed to us how important it is to use original content for the images on the video, this includes any background images. The album which we are going to be making should have around 10-15 tracks, we found this out by looking at twenty different digi packs and looking at the average number of tracks which was around 11-12.

Before the lesson I had very little knowledge of digi packs, not even knowing what they are made of, so it was very interesting.  We learnt that digi packs are made of different types of card, they are usually more expensive that plastic CD cases. They all have the same dimensions which are 14cm across and 12.5cm high. Its extremely important that when we are designing our own digi packs that we do these exact measurements as they are all the same size so they can fit on a CD rack. However the spine can be a different thickness, usually varying between 5-10cm. The majority of the digi packs had some form of artwork on the album which may have incorporated the artist in by having a drawing of them or a collage.  Some had a photo of just the artist, but this didn't seem to be very common. The most common theme regarding the font was the artists name was in the largest size font and the name of the album was smaller and in a different position to the artists name.

It is very important when we are designing our digi packs that we remember the image stays in the background and the font stays in the foreground. On the back of the digi packs they had a list of the songs which were on the album which was around 10-15 songs. This font was much smaller as this is done because digi packs are designed to be picked up and looked at, and having a small font allows this to happen. They also had a barcode on the back, copyright details and the company name, this was also very small font. The spine of digi packs usually have the artists name, the name of the album and a product code which is the same code from the barcode. All of the digi packs had the same or very similar styles of design on their whole digi pack, as it can look very strange having very different designs or colours on different panels.

Below is a few examples of the digi packs that we were looking at.