Research Into CD Packaging

Research Into CD Packaging

Below are three different CD packaging examples. They may be different but in many ways they are similar. They are all square and fit around the actual CD itself. They all seem the size size as well because they fit round a standard sized CD. They all seem to be made out of paper/card. There seems to be a design on every front of the CD packaging examples except the last one. The first one has music notes and the artists name on it with a coloured square around it, the second one has a group of trees that appear to be in a forest in monochrome colours and the third has the lettering cut out and the whole cover is just red. The third one is very plain and simple compared to the others. However having the lettering cut out is really effective and you straight away notice it.

The third one differs quite a lot to the first two. It is just one plain colour and has no text, pictures, patterns etc on. It just has the lettering cut out of the card/paper. The CD itself seems to match the actual packaging. The first CD is purple and it matches the coloured square that surrounds the artists name.The second CD is white and has a red pattern in the middle with a black circle surrounding it. This matches the CD packaging because of the colour scheme. The monochrome colours seems to be the thing that is the same throughout. The third CD is red and matches the whole front cover of the CD packaging. Grey is also a colour in this CD packaging and on the CD. The grey goes quite well with the red and as it is a simple colour, it makes the red stand out.

The first CD packaging folds around the CD. The second CD packaging surrounds the CD but the CD just slips into it. The third CD packaging is quite similar to the second one except it slips in a different way also it has a cover that slips over the CD.

You can't see the back of the CD packaging but I think the first one has the same pattern on the back as it does on the front and I think second one is showing us the front and the back as you can see the same CD but two different pictures. I think the back of the third one will just be red. All of the backs will have a list of the songs that are on the artists album.