Until It's Gone Digipack
Overview
After working together on band T’s Oathbound approached me again to help them with the Digipack for Until It’s Gone. They had a another designer work on it but they were unsatisfied with the work and brought me in to finalize it.
I designed and layed out the outside, inside and CD graphics for the Digipack and also edited the art on the front and back covers at the request of the band. The final cover for the EP needed a little extra work and the back art needed a facelift to match with the front cover. I brought both into harmony and gave them a coat of polish so that the digipack would look its best.
The final Digipack printed out perfectly, looks fantastic, and the band was ecstatic to see it come together so well.
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.