This digipak created for Twenty One Pilots' Blurryface album uses a distinctly alternative approach to design with a main focus on graphic patterns and symbolism. The recurrent use of the colour black within all the panels is used to reflect the theme of depression that emanates throughout the album whilst the white indicates the relief from this combined with innocence. The red aspects of the design therefore stand out from the other colours greatly and is used to indicate both pain and love which is mirrored in the band's music.
Tyler Joseph, lead singer of the band, once stated in an interview that the album title itself comes from the name of a character that the band created which "represents all the things that [he] as an individual...is insecure about". This insecure nature is evident within the design of the digipak due to the the disconnected lines on the back of the digipak connoting confusion and a disjointed thoughts.
The small typography on the front of the album allows the graphic to become the focal point of the digipak. This allows the alternative representation of disjointed emotion to become the most evident aspect of the album and is repeated throughout. By using a graphic design rather than a photograph, the album cover allows for the band's identity to be removed and thus indicates that a higher importance has been placed upon the music, rather than the creators. 
The print of the band's logo on the disc in altered colours helps to establish a connection between the band and the album whilst also indicating change.This could be indicative of a change in emotional state or a change in music style, both of which apply to this album. This therefore reinforces the theme of Blurryface and and insecurity.
This will help me when it comes to creating my own digipak as it has allowed me to see how the use of graphics can be used to effectively indicate genre and theme.
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