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What is a Digipak?

What a digipak is 

 A Digipak is a pullout in a CD that has features. It is a patented piece of packaging used in a CD.They normally have a gate fold like a book does.The outside packaging is usually made of paper or card where as the inside is usually only made of plastic or flimsy less expensive materials.

 Digipaks are designed to fold into a square shape. The back and the front panels are the main promoters of the CD and are used to drawn in the customers and consumers. The inside of the digipak is more there to give extra information and show images of the artist or of the music videos of the songs on the CD. Also the outside packaging is usually more appealing than the inside, the inside is usually more subtle and basic.

Some codes and conventions of a digipak 

 The front - 
The front of a digipak tends to be eye catching
The artist is usually displayed on the front, if not then an icon that describes the CD
Title usually put on the front cover

 The back -
These are the sort of things that may be present on the back of the didpak...
The back usually shows the tracklist
Record label
Barcode
Artist or album name

 Inside -
This is what might be shown in the insides of the digipak...
CD placed right in the middle when opened
More information on the album or artist
Lyrics
Artwork
This is the layout of a typical digipak layout and how it would look when opened -

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