Print Artefacts; Digipak Cover Inspiration.

For my project I have decided to create a Digipak which icludes a CD cover for Nirvanas, "Nevermind" album, which my music video song came from, aswell as creating a magazine advert for this Digipak I have created.

To create my print artefacts to compliment my complete music video, I have conducted some background research into what a typical rock/grunge album cover look like and have decided to construct this mood board to represent what elements I plan to bring into my print artefacts and what inspiration these items have given me.

This is of course Nirvanas iconic Nevermind album cover, demonstrating a young child trying to catch money on a fishing wire. This suggests that the money is the bait to draw the young child in. This links to the idea that we are all aiming for economic greatness and even the innocence of a young child is destroyed once they grow up and head out into the economic world full of competition and "cut-throat" business. I have decided to keep this theme in my album and DVD cover, as my video does also link to the idea that people with better jobs and money are seen as better than people who don't. So on my print covers I have decided to feature money, £50 notes to be exact, to connotate the same message, that money is a key element in our society that most things function around.

This is an album cover for the band Sick Puppies who are another band in the Rock genre. I was instantly drawn into this album cover due to the distressed texture in the background, which I thought represented elements in my video perfectly, such as the neglected industrial areas and linked to the whole idea of the grunge genre, about the music being far from polished, raw and full of flaws like the texture itself. So in my album and DVD cover I have decided to use a rough, distressed texture as the background.The artwork can also have hidden meanings, typical of rock genres, this one could have a range of meanings, from having to look "past the person" to find their heart or could mean that we've constantly got our hearts on show to the world etc.

I really liked this album cover as it's simple and makes the band name and album title the focus of the cover, often in the rock genre, detailed artwork distracts from the details so it's hard to tell whose album it actually is! But this one is so simple and still gives the grunge elements such as a damaged texture, bold writing and colour and tone differences. Inspired by this album cover, I have decided to keep my album cover simple, emphasizing the bands name and album title, along with having a mixture in tones and exposure on the background to break it up and give the texture more depth.

Blink 182 are a band in the rock / punk genres of music and this is one of their most famous CD covers. This CD cover interested me as it's pretty minimalist, and doesn't have a range of colours or very detailed artwork throughout. This cover is a simple black and white scheme, featuring the band name in different size fonts that are distorted on different shaped backgrounds with different distortion effects placed onto them, this adds to the punk genre that most things contain passion and angst and this could be shown by the distortion representing parts of ripped up paper and relate to the punk feeling of rebellion. The main heart is on a creased paper texture containing little black crosses in pen, this could mean that they are kisses on something such as a love note thats being sent to the person they miss or they feel their actual heart is now limp and crumpled by the person leaving. I thougth for a simple CD cover, this provides a strong message.