print research

For this project, we have to create a digi pak for our album! We decided to make a vinyl because it’s what we found most of the target audience of these artists to prefer (including me and my partner). We’re starting the research so we can see what we need to include in ours. 

I started with researching Niall Horan because I own all of his albums and he tends to include a lot of inserts in them that I feel like we could use for inspiration. 

This is for the album The Show that came out in 2023. The front and the back of the vinyl match with fonts and color palette. I really like how to back is really like looking at the picture of the front from the back because we see the title in the glass. I also really like how the names of the songs are centered and at the top because it allos for the picture to be the majn focus. Inside the vinyl, Niall included these handwritten lyrics, but not for every song, he only included a random one per vinyl so that fans would be surprised with which one they got. For his past album Heartbreak Weather, he had two different posters and offered signed versions as well. The color palettes for both albums are consistent with the whole vinyl, which is something I really want to incorporate into my vinyl.

Additionally, Louis Tomlinson’s album Faith In The Future is a vinyl pack that has a black and red color palette that also stays consistent. Inside, it has a lyric book that has exclusive pictures as well. It comes as a booklet instead of just printed on the paper that holds the disk. One of the papers holding the disks is checkered black and red, which matches with the jacket he’s wearing on the cover, which I found it to be a very small detail that helped with the cohesive look of the whole vinyl.