Monday, 31 October 2011

Digipack Research 1


The entire kit and kaboodle from Blink 182's most recent album, Neighborhoods. The cover and booklet are unusual in that it's black and white. This is a departure from not only the use of many, bright colors within Blinks past albums, but within the albums of most pop punk bands. On the actual cover is an image of a suburban area with Blink 182 being spelled out on the buildings. This is obviously referencing the albums title, Neighborhoods. Also we see several references to and tributes to friends and relatives, scrawled in graffiti on the buildings. The likes of Ava and Jack are children of the band members, and we see DJAM as a tribute to a friend of the band who passed away. On the actual disc, is the standard Blink smiley face, first used as the cover for their 2004 album and which has since become their icon.

This is obviously going to be very important in the designing of our own digipacks. This is the only example we have of a digipack from Blink 182's new look, and as such we will be keeping this in mind throughout.


Blink-182+-+Neighborhoods.jpg

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