Vintage Cassette Tape Covers
Bruce Jamieson of the top notch design firm I Love Dust emailed me about this diamond mine of vintage cassette tape inserts he just uploaded to Flickr. The collection includes covers from Happy Sound, Bonsonic, Philips, BASF, WHSmith, Emitape, AGFA, TDK and a grip of others. Lots of great material from the 1970s and 80s.
See the whole collection here.
also worth checking: Vintage Electronics and Music Concrete booklet.
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Tags1960s, 1970s, cassettes, ephemera, graphic-design, USA, vintage
02.09.09 in Found design by Dave
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Brilliant collection. I love the ‘Happy Sounds’ one - so over the top for a cassette cover and great colours.
02.09.09 |
Delicious Industries |
Found design |
The Happy Sound and Philips with the polka dots make me, well…happy.
Thanks for sharing these.
02.09.09 |
Rua |
Found design |
They look very mod. As a group they have so much visual interest. Good enough to frame.
02.09.09 |
Milena |
Found design |
These are amazing. I absolutely love the red/yellow/black colour scheme of the BASF insert.
02.09.09 |
Brian |
Found design |
Hey Milena,great to see you here again!
02.09.09 |
Dave |
Found design |
Its amazing to think some people were using these tapes to store computer data.
02.09.09 |
Dave |
Found design |
I believe I still have some of those EMI tapes somewhere here, storing up my wonderfully inventive Basic programs for the BBC Micro!
Great nostalgic set of shots (and yes we did walk around with pockets full of them with our precious computer data)!
02.09.09 |
Graham G |
Found design |
I have one of those gorgeous orangey-yellow Basf cassette tapes. It contains a recording of me playing with some toy soldiers when I was three or four - I’m rambling away and then get all shy when I figure out I’m being recorded
02.09.09 |
Shane |
Found design |
I forgot all about WHSmiths tapes! Plus their old logo is pretty good.
02.11.09 |
Andy |
Found design |
Check out http://www.c-90.org. There’s a lot of same stuff there.
02.12.09 |
haplishe |
Found design |
I remember the great-looking BASF LH tapes used by my school in the early seventies. Sure I have some in my attic too!
03.14.09 |
Steve |
Found design |