Research: CD cover 'Outside the Box'

This album artwork is from the same artist that we are making our music video for and is therefore a similar product.
Here are the front and back covers from the album by Skream called Outside The Box:

The album artwork is simple although effective. For example, the use of the opacity (see through) of the blue box on the front cover. This not only does this looks good, but it also makes the whole artwork more interesting as at first it may look like a solid box but if looked closely, the mans face is visible. Techniques like this will also be easy to implement when me and partner use photoshop to produce are CD cover.

Another thing I like about the CD artwork is the simplicity of much of it. On the back cover only a coloured box is used with the text overlayed. This shows that that CD covers do not always need to be complicated with much editing done to them to be pleasing to look at.

The fact that the title of the album is shown vertically in the top left of the front cover as opposed to the expected horizontal text design shows the unconventionality of the artwork. I will talk to my partner about presenting the our album title in this way as I think it would compliment our design.