A Digi-book is a little attachment that comes within the album covers. There are no specified measurements or layouts for a Digi-book, allowing artists to experiment and show their personality more through how they choose to present their ideas.
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
On opening “Favourite Worst Nightmare,” I found it opened out with an image on either side of the CD, both showing back windows of a house at night, with the rooms of the house illuminated and decorated with bright, vivid colours, matching the inside of the house on the front cover. By putting the picture on the other side of the card, it makes the house seem 3D with the front on one side of the case and the back of the house on the other.
The Arctic Monkeys chose to give buyers a 12 page booklet in their second album. The booklet is simply 11 pages of photography using vivid colours like green, orange and pink. This relates back to the album cover which is a picture of a dark, grim street, showing three windows looking into rooms with bright decor, like something from the 60’s.
The pictures themselves match the dark nature of the music and the album cover by being extreme close-ups of general everyday things for example a fork, whilst being dimly lit.
On the final page of the booklet, the band use a green font on a black background which relates back to the green logo on the black background on the front of the album and to the find used on the back page.
They include a carbon copy of the track listing found on the back of the album and then in smaller print in the second half of the page, they include all of their acknowledgements to each song (i.e. who wrote it e.g. “track 5: Words by Turner/Bennett, Music by the Arctic Monkeys”)
Throughout the entire album the band use the same font and the same colour scheme, which is dark and green.
Favourite Worst Nightmare Front Cover
Example of Favourite Worst Nightmare Artwork
The Killers - Sawdust
The Killers have chosen to use an autumnal scene with the main colours being used browns, oranges and greens. The name of the band is written in white to make it stand out from the background, along with its position in the middle of the cover.
However the book included inside the covers shows the Killer’s thinking outside the box. All appears to be a normal booklet on first glance however when you open up the first page, the booklet takes up a more “wardrobe style effect,” with pictures of brass handles on wood making it seem like a door to Narnia.
When you open up the two doors, there is a wall style effect there, with a wooden style background and lots of pictures of the band with frames on them as if they are hung up on the wall.
The fact this album is dedicated to the fans makes the pictures all the more meaningful, because the fans who have purchased the album can look at pictures of the band and not have to put the pictures up on their own wall.
The pictures show the band in a variety of different places at a number of different stages in their careers, which not only reminds fans why they fell in love with the band in the first place, and also reminds fans of where the band are now.
The fact the pictures show the band in places such as under the Eifel Tower and jet-skiing makes them look like holiday pictures which makes the wall look more authentic.
On the back of the booklet is a bright green background with the words “this album dedicated to our fans” wrote in the same font as the album name on the front cover.
The CD itself also matches the colour scheme throughout the album, with the CD design made completely of brown and dark yellow.
Sawdust Front Cover
Sawdust Digi-pack half and fully opened
Hellogoodbye - Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs!
It seems America’s most successful export of geeks have simply chosen to use a conventional CD case with a front cover which consists of a drawn monster who is painted in as if a child drew and coloured the picture in with wax crayons.
When you open up the case, you find the same style of art on the CD itself, but when you take out the front cover and unfold it, it becomes a poster with two sides.
The first side is a picture, mostly black and white which builds on the front cover, perhaps the buyer can finish off the colouring for him or herself? Or maybe the band just want to promote the artwork of the artist “Le Deux” who designed all the artwork for the band around the time of their first album’s release.
On the second side of the poster, we see familiar drawings but this time there are boxes built into the artwork containing the lyrics to all the songs on the album. This has become a lot more common in recent times, with bands releasing albums with lyrics in booklets found in the album case, but rarely are the lyrics presented in poster style as is found here.
Hellogoodbye’s bare and blank style really draws attention to the small bits of bright colour that are found, and in a strange way, less seems to be more with the absence of colour catching the eye and diverting attention to the artwork itself rather than the colours.
When you open up the case, you find the same style of art on the CD itself, but when you take out the front cover and unfold it, it becomes a poster with two sides.
The first side is a picture, mostly black and white which builds on the front cover, perhaps the buyer can finish off the colouring for him or herself? Or maybe the band just want to promote the artwork of the artist “Le Deux” who designed all the artwork for the band around the time of their first album’s release.
On the second side of the poster, we see familiar drawings but this time there are boxes built into the artwork containing the lyrics to all the songs on the album. This has become a lot more common in recent times, with bands releasing albums with lyrics in booklets found in the album case, but rarely are the lyrics presented in poster style as is found here.
Hellogoodbye’s bare and blank style really draws attention to the small bits of bright colour that are found, and in a strange way, less seems to be more with the absence of colour catching the eye and diverting attention to the artwork itself rather than the colours.
Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! Fron Cover
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