What is a digipak?

Definition of Digipak - "Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI-Shorewood, an Atlas Holdings LLC company."

As part of our coursework we have to create a digipak for our chosen artist and song that we are recreating.  A digipak is similar to a standard CD case. However it is typically made out of paperboard or card.  A digipak can hold one or more CDs. Digipak's are often used to make the product appear more expensive and they often open up like a book, for example the above image. 

Digipak's are often used for when artist realises a specialist album. This is because digipak's are different to the standard CD case and offer a luxury look and therefore an artist choses to use them when they are creating something that is special to them. For example a limited edition CD or an artists greatest hits.

When creating our own digipak there are several things that we need to consider such as the colour scheme, the images of the artist or symbols to represent them, different fonts and what information we want the digipak to include. 

The above image displays a template of what a digipak should look like. As you can see from this image it can contain more than one CD and they tend to open in a book like formation.  When we create our own digipak we should try and use a similar template in order to create a professional look.