Beginning my digipak

Beginning my digipak

I had hit a brick wall with my mashup of my digipak as the informality blog highlighted it as diverting from the genres conventional informality. As I sat infront of the mac,  I noticed many students only use one colour as a background. I personally feel that this is very bland and needs something additional so I had an idea to make my album cover pixelated. Initially it was inspired by hip hop artist Chris Brown with his album F.A.M.E . Up close you can see that the different colours are posters of him but from a far the posters are very small and just make for a very creative album cover in terms of artwork. With this being said I began to draw blocks and changed the opacity with every once in a while changing colours. Here are some screen shots of this process. 

As shown by the many screen shots above, we can see the colours gradually overlay each other and tone itself down. Following the suggestion that we shall not use bright colours for our digipak I used a big white square and threw it on the album (the third from last picture illustrates this) to tone it entirely down. These pixelated colours were used in reference to the Yellow Magic Orchestra's video computer games. In this retro day and age with everything being "resurrected" I feel this would catch a audiences eyes with with a real sense of retro electropop plus there is no way people would miss this album in a shelf full of others. The pixelated theme will be throughout with the idea of pacmans and other retro video game characters appearing in the albums interior covers. Perhaps mixing it with the new school electropop...