52. Do's and Don't of design work

• include record information
• additional stickers incl. parental advisory if necessary
• use the artist's face (somehow!)
• Use clear photos and text
• use professional editing software
• Keep to a theme or and colour scheme for all ancillary products
• Make your artist's name the biggest or most obvious thing on the front cover
• Keep in mind your genre and typical ancillary product styles when making your own
• Be as creative as possible
• Include a track listing
• Make visual links between the music video and the digipak

• Use images from your music video/Screenshots
• Use completely different colour schemes on different digipak panels or poster/website products
• Stick square images onto a plain background
• Use plain unedited images
• Use low resolution images
• Clash font styles (i.e. formal vs informal) 
• Leave out import record label/industry based information!
• Put your album name before the musician/s
• Use more than one 2 fonts throughout the digipak
• Make a product which doesn't go with your genre
• Crowd the cover with images or excessive editing
• Don't stretch your images