Digipak: First Draft

I started to make my digipak along my plans of using found images for it. For the front cover I used a small part of the painting "The Triumph of Death", made it black and white and adjusted the levels so it is only black and white, no grey. I also erased a portion of the image around some of the background/people to make space for the text. The image fits with the genre characteristics for alternative hip hop and lyrics used in the genre because it is dark and is about death, it features imagery of skeletons and death. Making the image dark and more simplistic makes it easier to see as well as fitting more in to the conventions of the genre by being darker.

For the title for the album I used my font choice which is Wishful Waves. is is distorted/wavy but also bold and fits the weird/aggressive genre. I tried red and purple which both work but I prefer the purple, I feel the red makes it look like another genre like punk or metal. The purple makes it look more mystical which fits the conventions. I made the type go in an arc to fit in the space and I also tried to stretch every letter to fill the gaps. I did this to emphasize the distorted features of the font and to fill in the gaps.

I have decided to progress by remaking the design of this (and the rest of the digipak) using cut out images and collaging them, this will take more effort but will make a more visually interesting image because my black and white cover could be too simple especially compared to album covers from other artists which often use more abstract images than just an image made black and white and slightly adjusted.