Digipack analysis

What is a Digipack?

 Digipak is a patented style of CD DVD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI-Shorewood, an Atlas Holdings LLC company. Digipaks typically consist of a book-style paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside.
They are considered the best alternate to CD cases are the material they are made of is more environmentally friendly and have the ability to be a better designed all round package.

• Arctic monkeys Digipack for the album: 'Whatever people say I am, That's what I'm not.'

- This picture is portraying a digipack once it has been opened. It folds out in a reading book format and has two sides in which either a CD or album booklet can be stored. As well as this, it is easier to print on a design on the covers, in this case a man smoking a cigarette in black and white colour. The album title and song titles are also seen on the printing. The 'less is more' method works very well on this digipack, not necessarily having a theme just making the audience think who it actually is and what's the point behind it. The man shown in the picture isn't an actual band member which would make the audience furthermore research the album and find out who it is.

The cigarette is quite symbolic and iconic. It is very vague and strange but the audience consuming this product who smoke can sort of relate to the picture. The way the man is covering his face with his hand in the left picture can indicate he may be ashamed that he smokes or upset about something. This for a digipack inside cover is very down to earth and unique.

• Jack Johnson' digipack for platinum selling album: 'In between dreams'

This detailed photo is showing both the outside and inside of Jack Johnson' digipack. There is no drastic in colour theme meaning it isn't complicated. This is suitable towards his pieces of music which are usually his voice and his acoustic guitar, a very stripped down artist. A sense of simplicity is shown in both his digipack and music.

• Red Hot Chili Peppers Digipack for Greatest Hits album

As you can see on the far left of the picture being shown above of the RHCP Greatest Hits album, there is a few paragraphs involving a brief history of the band and separate sections on every song that is included on the album. It describes the songs and what album they originally came off before it got put onto the greatest hits album.

It is the second compilation album by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. It was released on November 18, 2003 by Warner Bros. Records. Aside from their cover of "Higher Ground", all songs on the compilation are from their tenure on Warner Bros. Records from 1991 to 2002, in addition to two newly recorded songs which were recorded specifically for this album.

'Greatest Hits' was released along with a separately sold DVD containing most of their music videos from the same time period. The album was released with Copy Control protection system in some European markets, but not in the United States.

The two new songs that were featured on the album were the singles "Fortune Faded" and "Save the Population", which was released as a non-radio CD single in Japan and Spain. "Fortune Faded" itself was a re-recording of a 'By The Way' outtake that had been performed at some concerts in 2001. A music video was filmed and released for "Fortune Faded" but was left off the DVD version.

The very popular logo of RHCP is a shape which basically is an asterisk (*) in the colour of red. This is on the digipack display quite frequently as you can see in the picture. Carrying on tradition for the band seems to an aim of this greatest hits album and reminding their audience and people who may not have heard of them why they are one of the greatest bands to ever have become, playing eachother for nearly over 3 decades and involving many different line-ups. Some departures were unfortunate as the death of their first guitarist Hillel Slovak.
Hillel Slovak  was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988, Slovak recorded two albums with the band, Freaky Styley (1985) and The Uplift Mofo Party Plan (1987). His guitar work was primarily rooted in funk and hard rock, although he often experimented with other genres including reggae and speed metal. He is considered to have been a major influence on the Red Hot Chili Peppers' early sound.

• Bob Marley Digipack for Greatest hits album featuring live DVD

• Jethro Tull 

This is a digipak album cover in which a band called 'Jethro Tull' designed. I thought I'd find this specifically in a look to see what album artwork looks like that is a simple idea to mine.