What is a Digipak?

The DVD DigiPak is a modern, stylish alternative to the standard DVD case. DigiPaks have been a popular choice in the retail industry for packaging DVD box sets and CD Albums and give a product an expensive professional look and feel.

CD Digipaks

CD Digipaks are a printed card packaging that can hold one or more CDs which are held in place with plastic trays which are glued into the digipak. These cases are designed to firstly hold more than one CD and secondly promote a set design of a certain artist.

In a CD digipak there normally contains four covers. The front cover most certainly always publishes:

• Artist's name.
• Album name.
• CD brands.
• Sponsors.
• Picture representing the album or Artist.
• Year or date of release.

The middle two covers contain:

• Plastic covers in which both CD'S are held.
• Lyrics or pictures of the artist/song.
• Bonus/special features disc ( this isn't the case all the time).
• General information about the artist, the album.
• Artist notes on the album, his/her inspirations, possible favourite tracks.

The fourth cover which is found at the back of the CD contains:

• Songs listed and numbered.
• Date in which the songs produced / released, number ones.
• More pictures/ lyrics of the artist/track.
• Setting/theme which can be linked to the nature of the album.

Film/DVD Digipaks

A film digipak is very similar to that of a CD one; however the product and layout may differ. Inside a DVD digipak there is normally a copy of the original film, a Blu-ray version, special features disc and sometimes the track played throughout the film.

Here are some of our own photographed digipaks from our artists genre. Two of them are 6 paneled and one has a book inside it. These digipaks my influence our own designs.

By James Raison