CD FIN

OUTSIDE

INSIDE

FRONT COVER

The eye is immediately drawn to the 'parental advsory' sticker, the sign of any good album--well, good if you're a ten year old. Needless to say, it's in key with quite a few other rock CDs (Marilyn Manson, Metallica). 

The front cover is more simplistic than most punk rock albums in order to set Macro Friends apart from them. However, the black text on a square white back ground is a bit of a reference to the ransom note fonts (letters that have been cut out of a magazine and stuck with other oddly coloured letters to make words and sentences).

SPINE

The spine was kept quite simple, but the black background connotes a darker style of music and more likely to attract my target audience. Also, the yellow ARIAL text complements the lyrics of the music video as well as the website.

BACK COVER

The back cover of the digipak consists of a 'skin' background (black and white); on top of it is the image of a clenched fist with the colour inverted. The grey, Arial text contrasts the black background of the square. It's "Monochrome". In the bottom-left corner is the 'all rights reserved' text commonly seen one the backs of digipaks, along with mention of ANNA-KEY RECORDS. To further the level of authenticity, I have also added a bar code.

INSIDE - LEFT

This page was done pretty simply. I colorised the image of my cigarettes yellow and used the red option of the filter packs to make it look like a hotter shade of yellow and less washed out by black. On top of that is a white square: another reference to David Bowie.

INSIDE RIGHT

This is identical to the left panel, save for me brightening the image to represent the plastic case which holds the CD.

CD

The CD itself is plain white and there are square images of the puppet's different furs as a reference to the 'wanna do' music video.

OVERALL

I have not made a spine for the digipak because I wanted to make a digipak that looked a little bit like a vinyl sleeve: similar to Joy Division's debut EP An Ideal for Living. The cover is a black and white image of a Hitler Youth drumming.