digi pack forms and conventions

Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside. Digipaks usually consists of 4 sides but can consist of up to 6 or more. Whist digipaks have the same plastic trays as jewel packs they are considered much more time resistant and fashionable.

Digipak nets look like this: 

Digipaks casn have anynumber of faces. The most common number for a a CD digipak is 4 sides but for DVD's and still even CD's more can be added.

What do you usually find on the faces?

Front cover:

From looking at many album covers i can see that it is conventional for The artists or bands name and the album title to appear on the front cover of the album. The Album cover image also conventionally has some kind of link back to the artist so weather it be a picture of the artist which is usual if it a debut album or a picture or still image of something that relates back to a music video made by the artist or a track on the album.

Back Cover:

Usually on the back cover of a digipak you find a tracklist of all the song you can find on the album and a bar code so that the album can be perchised. Also usually the back cover will have some relation to the front cover so weather it just be a colour scheme of front or picture of the artist.

Inside cover

it is conventional to find a lyric booklet within the inside cover of a digipak.


CD tray

The CD tray is often made of plastic and behind it has some kind of image or design that relates to the artist of to the rest of the images on the digipak.