I have collected a variety of sleeves and this will be helpful when designing my foldout digipak.
The first two digipaks came from a music magazine targeting young people that listen to rock music, mainly male but can be female. The magazine is called rocksound and I recieved a brigade digipak and a digipak created by the magazine.
On the front cover the rocksound one, the graphics are very simple compared to The Brigade digipak because the first one is focusing on a few different tracks on one disc to promote their magazine so it uses a clever image to link with the title "Bugging your ears".
Both of the digipaks are made out of cardboard material and are not fold outs because now indie magazines use it as it is environmentally friendly and is less costly. So therefore when I create a design for a digipak it needs to be made out of cardboard
Overall the layout for the non foldable digipak would be a graphic or photographic image for the front cover, a title and a list of songs (or in my case music videos) that are included in it and maybe suggest there is a free poster inside the fold out sides.
The use of photography combined with graphic art is much more appealing than just having a photograph of the artist. I may use this idea when designing and also it has been edited like cutouts and has block colours. Many of the music classed as "Indie" us block colours.
