Thursday 15 December 2011

Planning: ideas for ancillary

Coming up with ideas for ancillary were tough as the design must sell our artist, relate to the artist and relate to our music video. I find the genre of indie pop much harder to produce ideas than pop since indie pop designs usually require neutral colours compared to the bright colours used in pop genres. During my research on other albums and digipaks, I found that majority of them used a large image of the artist on the front cover with a simple back panel in a colour matching the front. This is the design I am aiming for as it is simple but effective. Due to the fact our artist is serious about her music, I want the digipak to reveal this through the design to show that she is all about the unique voice. Additionally, the font will also be fairly simple. At first, I wanted the image with 'CCx' imprinted on the sand for the CD housing but later decided to use the image on the opposite inner panel behind written details for each song.

Colour scheme: tan/brown & white for text
Tracks: same tracks from VV Brown's album
Artist name: Charlotte Cole
Digipak name: L.O.V.E
Font: Gill Sans MT (bold for artist name)
Number of panels: 4

*Pictures to be added*