Album Cover Analysis and notes on Digipaks

The album cover to be designed is for a Digipak. This type of CD case was created in direct competition of the jewel CD case and consists of resistant card folded to create four main faces and the spine. A plastic tray is then glued into the card to hold a CD. Here is a net/blueprint version of the digipak 

And here an example of an assembled an printed 4 page Digipak as I will make

Many real bands have opted to use this CD case design from my related genre. Killswitch Engage for example opted to release the special edition of their self titled 2009 album. Here is the cover.

The album cover is very striking. The use of colour the black and yellow "warning" colours indicate that it belongs to a heavy genre straight away, you wouldn't see a jazz album using this scheme. This eye catching scheme along with the manipulation of the leopard with a snakes tongue makes this cover very eye catching. The clever positioning of the bands title between the teeth of the leopards mouths draws your eye to it straight away. Thus the album uses eye catching colours and imagery to quickly establish genre and then draws the potential buyers eye to the band name leaving no more illusions about who the album is by.