Parental Advisory/Advertisement Stickers...

When looking at what I thought was my final edit of the front cover of my CD Digipak I realised that something was missing and it did not look realistic enough. So I went to my CD shelf again and looked at some more examples of existing album covers, etc. and realised I had not put a parental advisory sticker or an advertisement sticker on it yet! The parental advisory sticker is important for our particular genre of music as it can be used as a selling point to fans who buy into the mysterious/rebellious nature of the band.

Before and After;

Now I am much happier with how realistic my CD Digipak looks!

www.dafont.com...

This website is what I used to find the perfect font for my CD Digipak design.

[Click here to go to http://www.dafont.com/]

I spent a long time searching through the hundreds of different fonts on the website and eventually narrowed it down to five different fonts. I then tried them out on the front cover of my CD Digipak to see which one looked the most effective;

I liked the hand-written effect of this font but there is something slightly too gothic about it that makes it wrong for our particular genre of music.

I also liked this font because of it's interesting angles but it is too narrow and plain for it to work on this particular CD Digipak design.

Again this font is too small and plain to have the desired effect on this CD Digipak design.

Although I thought this font was very interesting, again it is slightly too gothic and dark, which is suggestive of a different genre that I am not trying to represent with my CD Digipak.

And finally, after searching through hundreds of fonts I found this one which works perfectly for the look I was hoping for on my CD Digipak. It is bold without being too edgy which reflects the musical genre we are trying to represent in the production of our music video.

This is the font I have decided to use for my CD Digipak design, so I downloaded it from dafont.com and saved it onto my CD Digipak front cover. Now I just need to add the song titles to the back cover, etc.

Here is the final front cover (as you can see we decided to stick with our simple theme and leave the album as a self-titled album - again the band name we chose, The Mags, ties in with our music video, as we have torn up pieces of magazines in lots of our shots as intertextuality);

Chosen Photograph for Front Cover...

I decided to use this simple photograph for the front cover of my CD Digipak because it would provide a nice frame for the name of the band and the album title, etc. However, I had to edit out the marks and symbols on the drum skin to make room for the bold, red text I was going to use.

Here is the photograph before and after I edited out the scratches/symbols...

Now I just need to choose the photographs for the other three sides of the CD Digipak and then choose the font that goes best with the whole look of the CD Digipak.