Bob Dylan's digipak is very centered around showing him. This is similar to how his music videos keep him in the spotlight at all times. All of the images show him dead center of the image. There is little emphasis on colour, instead using the photographs as the images rather than created images.
Also the images are all quite different, with little synergy outside of Bob Dylan being the only thing constant within the digipak. He is shown on all four images however the back cover shows a different representation of him in the shadows, adding mystery but also the more practical aspect of giving the white text a black background to stand out on. There also appears to be red CDs behind each image.
Tom Waits Digipak takes the opposite approach of not showing the artist on the inside cover instead just keeping him on the front cover. The digipak keeps a dusty, sepia-toned colour scheme on everything in the digipak. This is similar to the Bob Dylan digipak however it also has similarity to the Nine Inch Nails digipak in that there is little in terms of imagery within the digipak, which is unlike the digipak. It is also worth noting that Tom Waits sits more in the middle between Bob Dylan and Nine Inch Nails in terms of his own musical style too. I am going to do a more indepeth analysis of Tom Wait's digipak in my next post.
Although not Folk Rock, Nine Inch Nails digipak is still useful as it has a clear example of synergy between the sides. NIN's digipak does not show the artist themselves. Instead they show a constant colour scheme using blacks, greys and whites. The white text is able to stand out more against the black background of the CD. It is a very simple minimalistic approach that gives the digipak a sleek and tidy look.
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