Digipak Research

Digipaks are a format of packagng CDs and are often used as packaging for CDs. They mostly commonly contain a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card outer binding. Digipaks came to be used to describe all soft CD packaging.Digipaks were first created by MeadWestvaco. Digi-paks are now very commonly used and are used more than plastic CD cases as they're more environmentally friendly and dont break unlike plactic cases.


This was the 2000 AC DC digipack with aselection of their songs from tour. The image on the top left is the main cover for the digipack. The image on the top right is supposedly on the back of the digipack and lists the songs which are on the album cover. On both the front and back of the CD, the band name 'AC DC' is written in massive bold letters making it stand out more and as it is on both front and back of the CD its almost like a symbol representing the band. The front cover contains a photograph of all members of the band, and all bandmembers are dressed in black to match the dark background, adhearing to the rock genre.