Digipak Analysis - Nirvana - Nevermind

The cover to the album Never Mind by Nirvana uses a photo of a baby and money underwater that is took from the music video for Come as You Are, which is featured in the album showing that there is a theme involved. The reason behind this could be because of economic inequality, about how people are born rich or poor and affected by this unfairly as a result; this is most likely targeting America shown by the money being a dollar.

The album’s name most likely relates to Kurt’s look on life or the genre of Grunge and how everything around it is to do with being aggressive or depressed. The text of this is written in a warped font which is linked to the water background photo. The artist name, however, is wrote in bold capitals; this is because it is the bands logo and is how fans will recognise it.


The blue colour of the imagery and the gender of the baby suggests the target audience might be male. On the other hand the image on the left is a complete contrast to the rest of the album in colour and in images (fire and water). This could be linked to the style of music because the music contrasts and changes from quiet to loud through the verses and choruses in a number of their songs.


The back of the album (seen in the middle of the image) shows the song names, the band name and the record company. This is essential information so people know what they are buying. In the background of this we can see that there is water which relates the front of the album- the font for the writing in this mixes well with these blue colours because of the font colour (black and white).