Digipack Peer Feedback

Love the photograph where you're on the stairs, its so professional, the black and white theme is nice, not sure about the text, it looks a bit microsoft wordy I think there is far to much going on in most of the squares in this didgipack.

 I think there is a lot to much to look at so if someone was looking at it in a shop they would not read all of it. 

Good variety of pictures, introduces the band well. Could add colour similar to music video.

 WWW: Great Hybrid Beauty Font! Great quality photos, perfect special thanks page and cool picture page. EBI: You lose the black and white like you did in the video. Remove the slanted on 'hybrid beauty'. Difficult to read some of the song names because of hair. CD is basic but effective but would be better if it wasn't on a black background. Special thanks page is brilliant don't change unless adding colour!

 As said above, I really like Hybrid Beauty's digipak as the colour scheme is brilliant and it really establishes the identity of a 3 piece group;

The hybrid beauty digipak also uses a lot of pictures. All the pictures look professional. A lot of people have used a black and white background, maybe use colour? The fonts and the pictures go well with the with the rest of the digipak. Over all the layout is really good and it all goes well together.

 Middle panel on the top - not loving this font and style. The CD isn't too strong either, overlay a semi transparent image of the band in B&W to create stronger imagery, and the blue link doesn't work - try making it a mid-grey to complete the colour scheme. Overall, though, the layout is great, and goes with the conventions of the genre!

 flawless.

 I like the fonts that have been used as they are very individual. There isn't much colour which means the digipak doesn't stand out. The lack of colour doesn't go with the artists genre.

 i like the digipack but it feels very busy, maybe calming it down will help.

 Maybe add in a lyrics page rather than 2 pages of pictures.

 i like the black and white theme i think there could be more writing and less pictures

 White text on white background makes it hard to read Copied me for the download thing, copyrighted it Font looks strange with blocks instead of gaps in o's

 Fun layout, girly vibe. Black and white a bit boring? 'Special Thanks' page looks cheesy

 i'm confused as to what the album name is as there is only the band name on it - does this mean it is self-titled or am i missing it? i like the black and white colour scheme and the use of the pictures throughout. the fonts and colours link together on each section and the 'special thanks' is a cute addition.

 Good theme with black and white, interesting digipak pages. Improvement: make it fit a bit better into the boxes so it looks more professional

 Most people seem to think that our digipak is over-busy, however most people also seem to think that it's too monochromatic, and that we've used too many pictures. However, a few people think it's pretty good as it is, with minor changes needed. Due to the mixed response, I think we should have a group meeting, so we can discuss the feedback together.

The final digipack design

Digipack second draft

Digipack front cover

Digi Pack Planning Continued

Potential DigiPack Ideas

We looked at images from our photo shoots as potential images for our digipak. From our images, these two were our favourites. The first image looks like a selfie, which makes the image feel a lot more personal, however, it doesn't fit in with the genre specifics, which are usually clean cut close ups, or wide shots showing natural scenery. The second image is very dark, and shows the band on three separate levels. The group doesn't seem very together, as the band is standing physically quite far apart, however it fits in more with the genre specifics than the previous image. If we were to use either of these images, we would use filters to accentuate the moods of the image, i.e. the first being light and carefree, and the second being dark and mysterious. We would also use font in an outlined box, similar to The 1975 and Troye Sivan's style. Ideally we would only have the bands' name written on the front cover, as it is a self titled album. We decided the below font would work best for the image we were trying to display, as well as working within the style we wanted to use.

Digi pack planning design 2

The text reads:
 Front Cover
 Photograph of band
 only two fonts used throughout:
band logo font
body font

 Back Cover
'cracked' background
institution
 track listing
soft pink and white writing
pink track listing
white title

 Front Inside
 message to the fans
photo of band
edited messages
(the band will personally write these)

 Back Inside
CD lives here
Image of band facing sea
photo shopped image

Digipack Planning

The text reads:

 THE FRONT COVER:
 Here, there will be font reading 'Hybrid Beauty' - our self titled album
Also, a box may appear on the front cover reading: "Includes the hit single BLACK BEAUTY

THE BACK COVER: This will include the track listing for our self-titled album in the center of the back of the case.
The tracks will be un-numbered as inspired by albums such as Lana The back will also feature mentions at the bottom such as executive producer and also, our record companies logo
Track listing examples: "Electric Believing", "Polaroid", "RayBan Cadillac" and "Peroxide of the Diverse"

THE CD:
The CD itself will have text in similar font to the front cover on a matte black CD
Our record company logo will also feature here

CD BOOKLET PLANNING: The booklet will include information about the band, collage images from associated photo shoots and lyrics from our songs
The front of the book will be a picture of the band (undecided) and on the back, copyright conditions