Creating a first draft of our digipack!

During last week together with Angelina we were thinking of various designs for our digipack. This week I was concentrating to put our ideas together to create a draft of our album design. 

I was working in Photoshop. I have no bigger issues with creating photoshop documents since I use it frequently in my Photography classes. 

I started creating the front cover. I made my background black and later started looking for various neon light alphabet to create the name of the album and the name of the artist from these neon letters. I found four different types of light and I constructed two signs and later on used a 'smudge' tool to smudge the bottom parts of the name of the song to create some sort of dissolving effect.

Later on I founded a portrait of a woman, which I pasted next to the neon signs and in a similar way - by using 'smudge' tool I used it to achieve a dissolving face effect so it fits together with the text. 

This was my first attempt to our front cover. Later on I was thinking about using a pattern for a side with an actual CD. I downloaded from the internet a black and white rounded pattern which looked like a flower. 

As a next step I started thinking about the side with the name of the tracks. I wanted to make it fit to the flowery pattern. I thought about a noise effect as a background. 

On top of this noisy background I used 'pencil' tool to write the names of the songs in black colour. I wanted to be not perfect looking writing so it reflects the eerie theme of the music video and probably the whole album. 

I like the effect of 'messy' hand writing but I noticed that It doesnt really go with the front cover, therefore I decided to changed the front cover as well so it follows similar technique as the back side of the album. I replaced the neon light with the white hand writing and smudged it a bit.

Here I pasted a finished version of the whole digipack. It is only the first draft so we will still change it.