Digipak/Poster Research

Below is the album cover for Arctic monkeys latest album "AM". As you can instantly tell from the cover it is extremely minimalistic and simplistic which is a factor i have followed with my final digipak. The white lines/image have become famous to Arctic Monkey's that whenever someone sees the cover they can instantly tell that it is an Arctic Monkey's cover. The colour of this cover image is very affective, plain black back ground with white image which makes the cover be bold and stand out. This image which Arctic Monkeys have created can represented as a few different images like sound waves, a pair of glasses, Golden gate bridge in San Francisco  I have followed this convention with my final digipak cover with a plain black background and an unique white dot image in the centre of the cover which i created on photoshop. I feel that my band like Arctic Monkeys could become so well known that the target audience would instantly know when seeing my front cover image who the band is.

Inspiration which i gathered for my poster and digipak was mainly from two bands who are famous for the simplistic look Arctic Monkey's and The XX. The poster below is The XX's for there second album Coexist. As you can see this poster is very simplistic and is literally just an image which represents the band and the name of the band in small font below. The black and white again really allows the poster to stand out and this is a convention which i have followed with my poster and digipak so that i can grab the target audiences attention straight away. Again the same as Arctic Monkeys The XX have this image of an 'X' which represents them as a band so any advertisement or CD cover with the image on it grabs the attention of the target audience and they know straight away who the band is, this is a convention i really like about an album cover/poster just a simple image like these can represent a massive well known band. I have used this convention and made a unique design on photoshop which kind off looks like a a shower head with the white dots as the water falling out of the shower head (Odessa Soviet). Hopefully this image can become so popular and people straight away will associate it with the indie band Odessa Soviet.