Bellevue Days- Sad Boy

Modest Mouse- Dramamine

Radiohead- These Are My Twisted Words

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Fever To Tell Raury- Friends

Biffy Clyro- Ellipsis

The Black Keys- Chulahoma

Ethan & The Reformation- HollandiaNeck Deep- Life's Not Out to Get You

The Flaming Lips- With a Little Help From My Fwends

Green Day- Dookie Grizzly Bear- Friend

Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Mosquito Arcade Fire- Funeral Pixies- Indie Cindy Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures Muse- The 2nd Law Sufjan Stevens- Illinoise

Modest Mouse- Good News for People Who Love Bad News

Sonic Youth- Sonic NurseGorillaz- Demon Days Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Mosquito Grizzly Bear- Friend

Keane- Hopes And Fears Arctic Monkeys- AM Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend Paramore- Riot The Killers- Battle Born

Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About-

Modest Mouse

Stranger To Ourselves 2- Modest Mouse

The King Of Limbs- Radiohead

Com Lag-Radiohead

Badmotorfinger- Soundgarden Life’s Not Out To Get You- Neck Deep The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battle’s The Pink Robot

The Offspring- Americana MxPx- Teenage Politics

New Found Glory- Catalyst

Millencolin- Tiny Tune The Storkes- The Modern Age

Pixies- Doolittle

Evaluating Examples of Print ProductionsIn order to identify specific genre characteristics for my digipack I gathered examples of other album artwork from artists and bands from the same or similar genres. The band itself, Bellevue Days, states they draw influence from Modest Mouse for example which belongs to the genre alternative rock.To better understand the theme in which I can utilise in my own digipack such as colours, images, style etc I comprised a collection of examples and bands such as Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Neck Deep, Green Day and many more. A particularly important and even intriguing identifying factor was the cartoon or illustrated effect many of the covers had. The album covers for Neck Deep, Flaming Lips, Raury and Yeah Yeah Yeahs share this characteristic with the cover for the bands single ‘Sad Boy’ even employing this technique so therefore I conclude that this will be a suitable affect to create. This affect creates a sense of playful themes which is often ironically used by the genre which creates a sense of familiarity which allows the audience to identify the genre instantly.The images used by the artists are also a running theme throughout the albums. Images of fire are used by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Neck Deep, The Black Keys and The Flaming Lips. This suggest destruction and connotes to themes often expressed in the lyrics of their music, other signifiers such as this include the explosion of Green Days album and the gun show on The Black Keys cover, all of which suggest the same destructive and rebellious attitude.Another signifier of the genre includes the colour palettes used by the artists. In The Flaming Lips, Neck Deep, Green Day, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Black Keys artwork, as seen on the third slide, all share red tones which connotes danger and passion which is often theme of the band in which used these colours such as suggested. Other tones include greens and black which suggest earthy tones by when compared to the cartoon exaggeration of the illustration reveals a rejection of natural imagery and subverts the meaning, representing a political defiance which is present though many of the bands messages.The CD artwork of these bands often take a section or theme from the cover artwork and carry through a simplified version or specific image. Neck Deep for example uses the logo and colours of their cover to suggests a theme or style to their product but however keep the CD simple and classic due to the exaggeration of the front cover. CDs from Modest Mouse however often employ a simple and dark background with different variations seen with ‘Is A Long Drive For Someone With Nothing To Think About’ and ‘Strangers To Ourselves 2’. Both also have a simple line design over the back image which is present in most CDs from the band. This allows identification of the bands style and is a creative way to form a ‘signature’ of which fans can use to show support through merchandise etc.Back covers of the album often, as the CDS, take certain aspects from the extravagant front and simplifies for the back cover in order to support their running theme but allow for easily legible text. Gorillaz, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Grizzly Bear and Paramore all use this idea of which they stay true to their theme and aesthetic but allow clear and legible text. The font is also often block and bold in a contrasting colour to allow them to stand out. The Killers go a step further with their font, employing large red, exaggerated lettering on a simple backdrop to create a cinematic affect which give its style in its own right.Conclusively, this process allowed me to identify certain themes I can utilise in my own digipack in order to create identity, ‘signature’ and also appeal to the audience of the genre in which my band belongs.