Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Research: What is a Digipak?

Digipacks are officially a type of CD packaging which is made from cardboard material. Digipacks can open out like a book, or it can have three parts, so that one portion of the packaging opens to the right and one to the left, with the CD in the center portion. Usually, the portion of the digipack that hold the CD is made of plastic which is attached to the cardboard background.Digipacks were first created by MeadWestvaco, and their product, called Digi-Pak, is trademarked. However, as the this form of packaging became more and more popular and more demanded, it began to be used by more manufacturers. Thus the generic "digipack" came to be used to describe all soft CD packaging.

I looked at a website called coverdude.com
This website provides examples of thousands of different digipaks.  




This website will allow me and my group to find an example of a 6 sided digipak for us to analyse and deconstruct which shall provide us vital information when considering making our own digipak. 

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