Product Research - Album Covers

To complete the digipack we will need to create an album cover; whether it be a photo of the band, an edited graphics image or a picture relating to the album. To get ideas of what types of images bands use on their albums I have decided to carry out some product research in this area:

The Libertines - Time For Heroes

This album cover displays a photograph of the band, the name of the band and the name of the album. It is a fairly simple idea for an album cover and is a possible option for us to use as the idea for our digipack photograph.

Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History

This album cover is completely different from the previous one. It doesn't have a photograph of the band, but instead just has an image that doesn't include the band members. Sometimes albums like this display an image that relates to the album and other time the picture on the front of the album is completely irrelevant. However the idea of using an image that doesn't include the band is a possible idea for our digipack image.

Sonic Boom Six - Rude Awakening

Lastly some album covers use images of the band that have been manipulated using photo editing software. They don't just use a standard photograph of the band, but they use effects and sometimes other images to create a final album cover. Again this is another possibility for us to use as our idea for our digipack image.