Codes and Conventions of a CD/DVD Digipak cover:

• Artist's name and title of the album often displayed together at the top
• Band's sometimes appear on their album covers
• Central main image - usually the band or a band logo (or something which relates to the album content)
• Colour scheme to reflect the mood and content of the album, as well as the band's own iconography - a rock icon wont have a pink and yellow colour scheme.
• The spine of the Digipak will have the artist name and album title on it
• Institution's logo will be on the front cover or back cover and/or on the album spine
• Digipak's are often made out of cardboard
• Front cover is conventionally a part of the booklet within the CD case - plastic. This is not the case for Digipaks.
• Feature CD and bonus content such as an extra CD or a DVD
• The back will have the complete track listing on it.
• The back will have an image on it, also, with the artist or the artist's logo usually serving the space were the image goes. This would be next to the track listing
• The track listing is clear, and usually to the left. Althought they are sometimes centred, and I have never seen one that is situated on the right of the back cover.
• The track listing is also, sometimes, found on the CD itself.
• The CD is simplistic and doesn't usually have a picture of the band/artist on it.
• Colour scheme would be the same throughout.
• Stickers can sometimes be seen on album covers, and is the case with Digipaks, which are protected by a thin layer of plastic packaging. The sticker would be on this plastic. The stickers usually have album ratings from professional reviewers and/or a short list of singles featured on the album, and any bonus content that would be on it.