Noel Gallagher's Digipak Style

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are a recent band and they only have one official album released, which ironically is called Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. After researching across the internet and various magazines such as Q, I found that Noel had different digipaks for his singles and the actual album. The album cover has Noel blurred and in-front of some white lights, the main colour is a faded green and the font used is relatively simple and placed on the top right of the cover.

The other images are for his singles within the album, these are 'The Death of You and Me', 'AKA...What A Life', 'Dream On' and 'If I Had A Gun'. This therefore gives us more freedom with our digipak as we can follow either of these themes if we need to, the same style font on each digipak also connotes the bands iconography. In order to make our digipak look professional, yet original, we need to use either similar styled fonts or the same if they can be found, and a simple styled photo to be used as the cover. Each cover either has Noel's face turned away from the camera or blurred, so this may influence our cover too.

After researching the font which is used through-out the Noel Gallagher digipaks on dafont.com I have created a short list of possible fonts we can use for our own digipak. I believe the top three fonts are of similar style to that of Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds which is why they may work well for our digipak, as hopefully they can connote similar iconography to Noel's album. The fourth font is a different style completely, however the top two covers shown above seem to be set in a Western American location, as the traditional American Muscle car is often seen in states such as Texas and Alabama. Therefore the final font could be considered as it may follow the Western style used in the top two CD covers.

Here is a close up of the fonts used in Noel Gallagher's album and single covers. The font used to show the track title is a scrawly, handwritten style which is used through-out his singles. Therefore we need to find a similar style font to show the name of the song 'What A Life' for our digipak. The font which is used could well be Noel's own handwriting, this may have been done to add exclusivity to the digipaks, as when fans buy the song the fact they have Noel's own handwriting style could entice them to buy more. The last part of each single text is also in capitals, evident by the words 'AND ME', 'GUN' and 'LIFE!'. This one of many styles used by the band on their album and singles artwork. They may have chose to put these words in capitals to show the importance or that they are key lyrics during the song.