Digipaks

For my task I am required to create a digipak of the album. Unfortunately I don't know what this is, so I had to research these to find out about them.

What is a digipak?
A digipak is, as wikipedia puts it, 'a style of Cd, DVD or BD packaging' such as this:

As this shows, they are normally made of card or paperboard and have multiple panels, which are used to display information such as track listings and information. There is always one panel which has a plastic tray capable of holding a CD in it, but sometimes there are multiple panels of this, if there are extra Cd's to the album.

While these cases look better than normal 'jewel cases' they tend to be more fragile, due to the materials they are made of. digipaks tend to be less resistant to abrasion and show signs of wear easily.

Recently there has been a change in the manufacturing process, aiming towards reducing the environmental impact of the digipaks, being made with recycled materials such as plastic bottles or sugarcane.

How I can match it to my artist

As I intend to match the digipak style to the style of Frank Turners albums, I should put some style models on here:



As these show, normally the album art for his albums are drawn or simple graphics, with a single album having a real model. I will probably focus more on making a digipak like the 'Love Ire & Song' album, as I have limited drawing skills and would find it difficult to replicate a style similar to the other albums. I also want to create a physical version of my digipak rather than just have one made of images, as I feel it would look better to have a physical copy photographed rather than a mock-up made on photoshop.