Poster for Digipak

Making my poster for my digipak

As preparation for creating my poster, I had to find images that would match my music genre. Because the music is house, and would be played in the club, I decided to use bright colours, giving it the feeling of being in a club. The obvious reason of using a Panda on the poster is because the artist is called Pandaman. I used the smudge tool to make the Panda larger and to make it more unique, rather than being an image I clearly did not take myself. I chose to put sunglasses and add a tongue to the panda to make it more human-like, as the artist does have 'man' in his title. In order to make the poster an advertisement, I added the images of the digipak, the record company 'Virgin Records', and the release date. 

I used three fonts for my poster, so that it adds originality, and because I wanted certain words and sentences to stand out more than others. For the head title 'PANDAMAN' I used Chalkduster, and for 'EMBRACE THIS DAY' I used the plain font News Gothic MT, I used both of these fonts throughout the making of the digipak aswell. For all the other writing on the poster I used Superclarendon.

I also added quotes from Radio 1, and 5 stars to show the quality of the music and to get more buyers of the digipak. The bold title at the top of the poster makes it clear who the artist is and what album you are purchasing. As you can see from the image below, I had to create many layers onto my poster to allow me to move items around without moving too many items at once. I used 14 layers in total. 

This is my final poster, I am really pleased with the results, and I feel like it looks professional, and I know that personally I would be attracted to this bright poster.