R+P Post 24: Planning my digipak panels

To plan our digipak panels we took our inspirations and I drew up some designs based on them.

This is the sheet showing all of our initial ideas for the cover of the digipak. We decided before we started that the design would focus on the lead singer of the duo.

These designs were inspired by the covers of Adele's albums, which have tasteful black and white photographic portraits of Adele's face on their covers. However, we decided this didn't fit with our more electronic genre, so we discarded this idea.

This is an idea we liked much more, as it shows the singer and the DJ, which signifies the genre much better. We also like the idea of the artists standing back to back, although we are thinking of having this position be photographed in a way where the singer is facing more towards the camera, with the reverse image on the back cover which would focus more on the DJ. 

This is a demonstration of this idea, although the image above is a design for the inside of the digipak.

When we asked our target audience which of these designs they preferred they said they liked the idea of having the female singer, as the main draw of the act, having a portrait on the cover, and they also liked the idea of having the back cover being more focused on the DJ.