My quest to create the fairest digipack of them all began with big ambitions and the one and only physical album I own. I can't speak for Esha, but my interactions with music are mostly limited to an absurd amount of Spotify and YouTube playlists and the unfulfilled desire to see my favourite artists live in concert.
Needless to say, physically owning digipacks has never been a part of that equation because:
(a) I do not own a cd or record player much to my dismay;
(b) physical albums of artists I like usually cost at least one kidney and the shipping costs the remaining one because I live in Pakistan;
(c) desi parents would like to argue that listening to the same energy drink advertisement on Spotify ten times in a row is better than any other possible music listening experience, and I can't argue with that logic due to Capitalism Exists and Things Are Expensive reasons.
All of that's to say that apart from online references, the only physical specimen I had for research purposes is an album gifted to me by a friend—namely Thursday’s Child by TXT. Accordingly, it provided a starting point for me to kickstart my digipak research and decide what direction I wanted to take our own digipak in.
Looking at the CD cover and everything that accompanied it for a solid 10 minutes allowed me to familiarise myself with the essentials I thought we must include in our own:
Copyright text.
Imagery that visually coincides with the rest of the promotional material (i.e. the music video in particular.
A consistent colour scheme that ties the whole thing together.
Record label logo (already made, thanks to Esha.
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