Digipacks that inspire!

Researching digipacks proved easier than i anticipated, as quickly i began to realise that an album cover can literally be about anything. I wanted something that sticks in the listeners head, and that can become recognisable. i didn't want something bland and wanted an album cover that was enigmatic, and leaves the listener asking themselves what story the album cover is trying to tell.

Nevermind by Nirvana is one of the most famous albums and album covers of all time, and what i liked was the way it broke conventions of album covers and goes against what the public expect from album covers. The Nirvana made a controversial album cover the suited their style of music and demeanour perfectly. It provokes many questions as well as to the actual meaning of the album.

Serotonin by The Mystery Jets is a simple album cover with the whole band on the front. I found that really there is no secret meaning to this, and nothing too outlandish about it. It is a simple cover of the band, something that is easy for us to do, and it reflects the uplifting spirit of the band and in particular, this album.

I photographed my copy of Kid A by Radiohead, specifically for it's content within it's digipack rather than it's album cover. It provides a whole booklet, all of puzzling pictures that still i cannot work out any meaning for them. This of course is the beauty of it, a deeply fascinating digipack for an extraordinary album.

This i think covers all the areas we are looking at for the Digipack. I feel that Nirvana's Nevermind will relate best to what we are trying to do, but perhaps to tone down the controversy, as this doesn't fit in with any ideas we've already begun formulating.

George