Website research

Many bands/artists official websites match the design of thier latest album. This is to show that they relate and make you want to buy the album. This is the official website of the American band Green Day, with all the news on the band plus places to buy albums and merchandise.

This matches the design of thier latest trilogy of albums Uno, Dos, Tre.

Sometimes, the website matches the video more than the album cover.

 Thirty Seconds to Mars' latest album Love, Lust, Faith + Dreams has a very simplistic album cover. So the website takes more from one of the videos.

 

The brightly coloured dust in the background is more like the video for Up In The Air, where characters in the video throw this dust/chalk around towards the end. The website does a fantastic job, before it takes you to the actual homepage, it shows a page with links to places to buy the album.

 



The Artic Monkey's have the exact same pattern on both the website and album cover and uses a simplistic design and only two colours, which is very effective.

 

For my website, I need to use a similer type of design to my digipack with links to various part of the website. I have to make everything connect in order to show the video, digipack and website as one big product.