We haven't yet carried out our questionare or done in depth research, these are just our initial musings surrounding the task of the digipak. A couple of album covers that we already knew of, of bands that are within the indie rock genre can be seen below;
We particularly liked these album covers as they were good inspiration for our own work as we knew, from the style and features of our music video, that we wanted elements of hand drawn style imagery, as well as photographic snapshots of the video - which can be seen in the 'Wombats' album art, where the background image is a photograph, but the typography is made to look scruffy and hand drawn. Again with the Mika one, there is a photograph of Mika himself, surrounded by cartoon images, and the typography again appears hand written - we definitely wish to take this recurrent idea on board with our design, and work on a font that we can create by hand to use for the typography on our front cover i.e title of song/band, and to use inside or on the back for other information such as song lyrics, band information etc. Using a font that appears hand drawn, I think, is a really indie-rock feature, that I've seen a lot, and think looks really effective in creating the D.I.Y style that is desired by indie-rock fans. It also links well to our video as we used hand drawn animation and typography over the top of our shots to create an individual, indie style.
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