Digipak Research

We got inspiration for our artist James Couleur from a variety of different artists, Bastille is one of the bands we used fro inspiration as they are an indie rock band which is the same genre as our artist, however James Couleur is a Solo Artist so some of their ideas will not overlap with James Couleur.

Another similar Band are The Killers. The Killers are a very famous, popular and well known Indie Rock band; who have been successful over the years. The Killers have evolved and changed as the years have gone on. Whith this comes different albums made and therefore different digipaks have been created. Here are some of their digipacks...

As you can see the two Digipaks are very different, the second digipak focuses more on the the band as performers and as a band while the first one takes more of a conceptional theme to it.

We have planned to use lots of colour and powder paint in our Music Video. Along with this and our music genre that we are planning to use being Indie Rock Coldplay matched this perfectly down. Their album Mylo Xyloto is filled and covered with vibrant colours. Here is Coldplays Mylo Xyloto digipak:

As you can see the title of the album is right in the middle of the Digipack and the rest is filled with colour. This is in complete contrast to the other digipacks that Coldplay usually produce. A unique twist to this album is in the graffiti words you can see in the background of the album cover; Some of the graffiti if you look closely links into the lyrics in their songs. An example of this is in the top right hand corner of the album.You can see the words 'Everytear Waterfall' this links into the song on the album "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall'.



This is the back of Coldplay's Digipak from the album Mylo Xyloto. As you can see the back of the Digipak is full of colour and graffiti. We hope to take inspiration from this for James Couleur's album, not only from the range of colours used but also to concurrent theme that runs throughout.

Here is the CD for Coldplays album Mylo Xyloto. Yet again the colourful print gives us great inspiration for our video which we will be reflecting on in our digipak aswell.