Researching for the Digipak

As our group has planned to create a digipak and a website for the band, Framasson, I decided to do some research on similar genre bands digipaks which exists to get some inspiration

From Lewis's blog, I have researched The XX, Everything Everything, alt-J, and Swim Deep as these bands has similar alternative genre. 

The XX 

The XX digipak is very simple, and lack of use of colour. They have the same design with the 2 albums, the big X but just in a different colour, as the big X is their logo, fans will know that this is the band without been told obviously. 

The two album contains 11 songs and are mostly named in a word. 

Everything Everything 

The Everything Everything album is colourful and also bold. The contrast between the orange and the pink makes the album eye catching and also the way character has been drawn in blue/grey is interesting as its fanatical and the characters body gesture is not "normal" - unexpected attack.

The second album are the 4 band members of Everything Everything, they are all facing the same direction and wearing plain autumnal jumpers. I found it interesting how the back of the band connoted also the band is facing the back.

alt-J (∆)

In the alt-J album, the 2 album are both colourful and uses similar colour such as the yellow, purple green and blue. Both has a similar style of "not planned" finish, for example, the first album is painted by a paint brush but painted randomly. The 2nd album cover is a spillage of petrol on the pavement, and the way the petrol has separated is not done purpose. The finish is quite similar. 

The pastel colours make the album cover beautiful because the colours are not clashing. It gives a soft, gentle finish. 

The back of the digipak has used the same font and style. Big and bold.

Swim Deep