Analysis of Album Cover Art

Digipaks are now a common aspect of artist profiles. Artists often let their Digipaks express themselves, and it gives the audience a deeper insight into the minds of the artist. 

The Gorillaz Digipak

The band 'Gorillaz' use digitally created characters to represent themselves in videos, and even sometimes in public appearances (holographic images of the characters are often projected). This is then continued into their digipak design, and we see each of the characters faces taking up a leaf of the digipak. 

Rihanna Loud Digipak

Rihanna's 'Loud' digipak has a reoccurring motif throughout of the colour red. The hair, the lipstick, and the roses are all a vivid red colour, and the pictures of herself allow the audience to establish that it is Rihanna, no matter what part of the digipak they are viewing. The CD overlay is the inside of a rose, linking to the roses on the inside of the digipak, once more keeping the same theme throughout. Roses commonly connote love, maybe Rihanna is using symbolism, saying that love is loud, and maybe that love is louder than words!