Basic Digipak research

Digipak is a patented style of optical disc packaging. Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one ore more plastic trays capable of holding CD or DVD attatched to the inside.
Digipaks style packaging are often used for CD singles or special editions of CD albums. Digipaks style cases grew in popularityu among record labels and recording artisits in the early 2000's

This is an example of a 4 panel digipak. The 4 panels consist of the front, the back, the inside of the front which sometimes consist of the lyrics, then the panel which consist of the CD nornally in a plactic casing which you pop the CD out of a card sleeve.




This is a 6 panel digipak. It has extra panels to explain more about the artsist and the song whilst doing the same as the 4 panel digipak they are as equally as popular.