The document discusses the themes and designs of various music artists' album packaging. Katy Perry's packaging focuses on sweets and conveys sweetness. Korn uses dark colors like black and red to represent their dark, grunge genre. Black Sabbath's packaging is plain and ordinary with a retro CD design, reflecting the band's lack of distinguishing features. Stone Sour's packaging unfolds into a cabin scene with dark colors and blurred images, meant to depict a grungy, depressive style of music.

2. KATY PERRY
Within this Digi-pak there is
a continuous theme of
sweets and things which
could connote sweetness.
For example as you can
see the c-d is designed to
look like a doughnut as well
as the other looing like
another type of sweet.
There is a consistent
theme of sweets and it
is shown here within
another section of the
digipak. Within this
section you can clearly
she is lying on what
appears to be clouds but
they have been given a
pink effect to give the
impression that she is
possibly lying on candy-floss
and the pink could
connote her feminine
side.
You can see within this image she is posing in
front of two cakes which could connote the
sweetness within her personality. The font for
the writing is written in red and blue and could
symbolise the sweets and her personality.

3. KORN All of the colours which are used
within the digi-pak are all very dark
and use a lot of dark colours, this
could possibly connote the dark and
grunge genre which they preform.
The continuous theme of black and red
show the audience the type of music
which the band will play. This is
because Korn has a very alternative
genre and can be seen as obscene.
The colour work perfectly since black
and red are usually associated with
death, depression and something
being sinister.

4. BLACK SABBATH
The Black Sabbath digi-pak is very unique to any I have see before
and it has an unusual design. It has a retro design to the c-d which
gives it an authentic look. It looks as if it is a record however the rest
of the digi-pak is very bland and plain.
This does not
surprise me
when it comes
to looking at the
Black Sabbath
digi-pak. This is
because the
digi-pak Is very
plain and
ordinary and the
band has no
key features to
the band so
there will be no
key features to
the digi-pak.

5. STONE SOUR
Stone sour produced a
digi-pak and a really
unique concept one at
that. They have designed
their digi-pak to unfold to
create a house which
looks like a little cabin.
The “cabin” has a really
haunting and sinister look
to it and I believe this is
due to the dark colours
and blurred images and
the attention to detail.
The look of the album is consistent all the way through and
can clearly make out the genre. You would not associate the
album with pop but with a darker sub culture. The look of the
cabin could connote the fact that the music may be “grungy”
or depressive due to cabins being very secluded from
outside life much like the type of music.
This is the digi-pak which I
have chosen to to center our
digi-pak and our ideas around.
This is because the digi-pak
has the same feel as our own
and they have gone for the
same ideas as ours which is
the aspect of the trees and just
the general darkness and low-key
lighting.