Inside Covers

This is from the insert in a Pulp album. I really, really like this idea. I like the simplicity of the font on the white background and I like the way the quote is written - I could try and do this in my cover as it makes it easier for the fans to feel a connection with the band. It also works well as an apology for a long break away from making music.



This inside cover has little relevance to the music or the band which works nicely. It also has little to do with the front cover. There is a nice little quote on the left side which says "It's ok to grow up - Just as long as you don't grow old. Face it. You are young." This is again reaching out to their target audience and the band obviously have a clear idea of who their audience are - young people. However the photograph on the right of the man who looks like Patrick Bateman is there for no reason and this is humorous but also kind of creepy. I might use some irrelevant photography in my own digipak.



This is another Pulp cover which a quote in the cover. It says "Please understand. We don't want no trouble. We just want to be different." This represents an ideology of the band and the audience and represents their image as individual etc.



This is again a rehearsal style photograph in black and white, the sort that I really like on CDs. It makes the audience feel as though they are backstage watching something private and this can create a real connection between the band and audience. It is also really nicely set up photography that either is spontaneous or made to look as though it is. The black and white always works well with this style photograph.




With this cover I think it's nice and sentimental that the thankyous are written behind the CD. This means that you only get to see them once you take the CD out, making it feel more personal. The font used is great and the words fit really well inside the circle where the CD goes, meaning there is no hint of the thankyous at all until you take the CD out to listen to it.



I like this Cobra Starship insert and artwork because it is just that - artwork. The snake and the girl's hair are in a really precise cartoon style which stands out really well, especially with the black and gold used here. I like that this artwork is used throughout the whole digipak. I may have to use pictures I've drawn throughout my digipak so it's inspiring to see covers that work even better than ones which use photographs.



I like this Kooks cover. There is a posed photograph on the left side which works really nicely, then the right side is strips of film of rehearsals and them hanging around. This looks really good and effective, however I thought it was a bit too dark.



This insert is really lovely. It's from The Xcerts digipak for their first album and it's an old photo of one of the band member's mother and father. His father died before the album came out and in the bottom left corner it has the line "I lost love, you lost your father. I know it doesn't compare, my heart and your despair." from one of their songs. I really like this as it's a way of dedicating the album to his father. The other photographs are also old ones of the members as children etc which works really well and makes the album more sentimental.