album cover conventions

Artist name often presented in bold font for debut albums especially

Image of the artist, commonly placed central on the front of the album

cover

Sometimes there will be a visual motif – something recognisable for the artist

(in Mika’s case it is cartoon imagery)

Track list positioned on the back

panel

Barcode positioned on the back

panel

Record label information, along with

copyrights and the artist

website, placed on back panel

Title and artist name repeated

on the spine

Synergy between front and

back panels

Record label

how we conformed/developed these conventions

Central image of MiraJax

Track list positioned on the back panel – our tracks mostly correlate with the

theme of LIGHTS which can also be seen in the album title and the images

featuring neon lights. If not, then they are related to disruption or the

contemporary

Synergy between front and back panel- MiraJax

repeated on both panels and

background image stretched across

both panels

MiraJax and album title on front panel – we made the artist name

larger due to it being a debut album so we

needed to promote the

artist first

MiraJax and album title repeated on

spineBarcode on back panel Split-screen visual motif

– in synergy with website and video

Copyrights and artist

information Record label on spine and back

panel

Our inside panels are simplistic which we noticed was conventional for the Electropop genre. We used an image which harmonized the background image on

the front panels; they were both taken in the same location. As well as this, we used MiraJax as the focal image on the inside as well as the front which tied both sides together. The neon lights theme is also repeated on the inside panels. We decided to leave the cd part of the inside panel clear, so nothing would obstruct the images of MiraJax. The colour scheme is extremely similar to the front panel colour scheme and we manipulated areas of the image as we did on the front in

order to enhance certain aspects e.g lights.

digipak inside panels