Inspirations for the design of my digipak

Inspirations For My Digipak
Prior to making my Digipak, I have decided to look at many different dance and techno album covers in order to help capture the feel of the genre in my album cover. 

Jon Hopkins: Immunity (2013)

While I was initially interested in minimalism, I found that the album covers often incorporating minimalism usually looked rather boring, often sticking to basic forms when changing the colour aspect of them to incorporate minimalism into the design. However I found the much greater focus on the angles in the cover made it much more interesting to look at, even going so far as to exaggerate the sense of proportions to the angles through the use of tone, rather than using basic blocky colours. 

Junior Boys: It's All True (2011)

While I admire the simplicity of the album cover, the main aspect that I feel I can take away from this is the use of filters in the editing of the album cover. The slight blur filter in particular as I find it exaggerates the sense of motion and perspective, making it somewhat reminiscent of a fisheye lens. The very delicate use of red and cyan make the pinpoints somewhat three dimensional through the dated use of 3D layering. 

Porter Robinson: Worlds (2014)

The abstracted nature of the hand is contrasted with the geometric cube that has clearly been implemented through graphic design, given it's isometric nature, this slight contract helps to reflect the music of the album, as while it uses synthsynthisisers in a large portion of the music, the somewhat sad nature to the music displaces it from the majority of upbeat techno music, as mirrored in the alternative nature to the album cover. 

Squarepusher: Damogen Furies (2015)

The key aspect I love about this is the composition, is the upside down position of the photo turns it from simple looking to complex, particularly as the monochromatic filter changes the focus of the eye, leading the eye around the face by lighting, rather than the features of the face. This is mirrored through the flipped nature of the title, further emphasising the mysterious and alternative tone given to the album.