1. Band name in bright colours, central and at the top of
the digipak. To show off the band name and to catch
the eye of the potential buyer of the album.
Name of the album is
1984, written here in
Roman numerals.
Unconventional way of
naming an album maybe
designed to make it stand
out from other albums at
the time.
Bright, light colours suggest
happy positive music, not
normal for a rock album,
perhaps made this way by
design.
We see an image of
wings, suggesting an
angelic image, which is
not typical of the rock
genre.
We see a baby which to
us suggests innocence, a
direct contrast to what
rock and roll was
supposed to be.
We see two boxes of cigarettes and the baby with a lit one,
suggesting that this “innocent baby” is not so innocent and
more in line with the traditional rock and roll image.
No sign whatsoever of the
record label that produced
the album, unconventional
for now, however in the
80’s when this album was
made the album art was
deemed more important
than promoting the record
label.