Until It's Gone Digipack
Overview
After working together on band T-Shirts, Oathbound approached me again to help them with their Digipack for Until It’s Gone, their first EP.
Another designer had created the digipack already but the band was unsatisfied with the work and asked me to revise it. I created a new layout for the outside, inside, and CD graphics, revised the front art, and completely re-imagined the back art.
The final Digipack printed out perfectly and the band was ecstatic to see it come together so well with the revisions.
Approach
Oathbound provided me with all the necessary art, graphics, and copy for the EP but the back art needed to be reworked. I held a meeting with the head of the band to brainstorm how to bring the back cover in line with the themes of the EP (loss of a loved one, and holding onto to those who are still here) and match aesthetically with the front. We had a lot of ideas but looked for a simple solution that would yield good results and were hit by the idea of a vigil on the piano. It was perfect!
I got started reworking the back art to match the front and added in the vigil to finish it up. Then I sowed the front and back cover together graphically with the spine of the digipack so that they form one seamless art piece and completed the front cover.
The interior layout was smooth besides one hick-up. The page for the band’s thank you’s didn’t fit into the space provided without lowering the font size and making the text illegible. I was able to work around this though by finding a nice condensed font and breaking the text into columns to help me squeeze everything in and keep it comfortably readable.
Last up was the CD design. To keep things simple and meet my deadline I used the cover art as the primary graphics but sized up the art so that it would center on the focus of the art — the 2 figures. I added in the song list and band info and to finalize it, added in some cracks that re-enforce the themes of Until It’s Gone by making the CD look almost fragile.
