Practice for ancillary album artwork

Before I plan and create my digipak, it is important to note how to conduct a digipak beforehand as a way of practise and development of skills.

Below is the outcome although not completely done, of a cover alternative from Lana Del Rey's 'Born To Die'. I chose this image (above) as it uses a mid close up of her which is acceptable in terms of an album cover. Taking on board her previous album covers, many of them have a basic colour scheme and I wanted to keep her image by sticking to colours of black, grey and white depicted initially from the original image. Overlaying this onto Photoshop, I extended the background to fit onto the digipak template and then imported it into Quark Express.

Using text, I chose 'A series of unfortunate events' to keep it bold and edgy which is based on her trademark image as an artist. As well as this, I wanted the tattoo displayed in the picture to resemble the font used to make it consist. In regards to the song titles, I moved some left/right to make the album artwork more dynamic as the background is plain and simple but through the font style, I wanted to achieve a sharp but clear text which ultimately stands out to the consumer.