Disk design- research

After creating all of the pages for my digipak I also thought it would be worthwhile to create a design for the disk. This would make my digipak seem more realistic, I also thought it would draw in more attention, rather than a plain dull disk with no design. I first decided to research disk designs from existing artist's CD's to give me an idea on what mine could look like.

The first disk I looked at was from You Me At Six's album 'Sinners Never Sleep'. Below is an image of the design.

As you can see this disk is quite simple and not too over-packed with writing. It simply has the band's name in large writing at the top of the disk and teh name of the album below. Below this are the copyright terms and conditions. I have already included the terms and conditions on my back page of my digipak. I like how this design just uses a black background and there is no image. I feel that this may be something I will try with my disk as it will fit nicely with the black and white theme of the rest of my digipak designs. I feel that if I was to use another image for the disk it would be too much as I have used photographs on every page of my digipak which is why I feel it would be an effective idea to just go for a more simple design.

 

 

 

Below is another disk from one of You Me At Six's album 'Hold Me Down'.

 

This second disk uses slightly more colour to fit the rest of the album. The front and back of this album are a light brown colour. They have matched the colour of the disk to the colour scheme of the rest of the album. This is why I feel it would still be a good idea to use the black background for my disk to match the colour scheme of mine. This disk uses a nice floral pattern on the left side to fill up the empty space. This again matches the style of the rest of the album. A pattern like this however would not fit in at all with the style of design of my digipak. Again it uses the band's name, the name of the album and the copyright terms and conditions.