Digipack: Hand drawn designs

This is the Hand Drawn design of the front cover of the our digipack.
Throughout our digipack we are planning two have only two fonts used. We are in the process of finding a very decorative font to use on the artists name and a much more rigid font for the album title. The album title will also all be in capitals.
We are also currently trying to design a embellishment to be involved on the line underneath the artists name.
Another element to this front cover is gradient fill we are planning to put only on the back ground. We want to made the gradient fill in the top half of the picture and make it white to add to the effect of natural light. To do this without effecting the model we will need to use layers and cut the model out of the first layer and place them on a second layer and only put the gradient fill on the first layer.
The inspiration for our front cover came mostly from the Dido cover we looked at in our research. For example the use of light and gradient fills can be seen in the Dido cover.

This is the design for the inside of our digipack.
This is the most open to change as we begin to shoot for the inside cover. We know that we want to use aspects of the sun that can be seen in the Ben Howard inside cover we looked at in our research.
Obviously the whole picture could be very different as we start to shoot as we can garentee we will find a perfect setting with a large tree for the sun to bleed through with smaller yet still elegant flowers near by to have in our foreground. Because of this we accept that the final photo we use may be quite a bit different from this plan.
 However the editing will stay the same. We plan use a large photo for both sides of the inside page but on the right hand side that holds the CD we want to use a gradient fill of the same brown colour we will use for the CD.

This is the Design for our CD. While this is designed around our research we did we have also thought of a lot of the design ourselves.
Our research showed us that when creating minimalist CD designs it is crucial to balance decorative with rigid aspects. Because of this we have balanced out the decorative texts with a decorative symbol on the bottom half of the CD.
Additionally to this our research showed us that it isn't uncommon to have the copyright declaration going the whole way around the outside  of the CD in much smaller writing. We have cooperated this into our designs.
Furthermore, we want to link our CD to the rest of the digipack and the poster so as well as using the same fonts the whole way through we are also going to use a gradient fill on the CD. However the gradient fill we plan to use is a radial gradient fill that goes the whole way round the edge changing the dark earth brown of the CD to white on the outer ring.

This is the back cover of our digipack. The main inspiration for this back cover is the Ben Howard back cover. While his uses the golden hour over a field with sheeps we want to use it over a natural landscape but have most of the picture taken up by the sky.
The text for this side is inspired by the back cover of Didos digipack. She had her numbers and song titles different colours and we want to do something similar but change the fonts. By having the numbers the decorative font and the song titles the rigid font.
The only other feature on this back cover is the barcode. We have not used up all the space on the back cover because we want it to follow the minimalistic vibe introduced by the rest of the digipack.






(Designs and work here done by Rosie)