Casette Covers

I just bought my first project car. My dad and I have been working on it for about 3 months now. The car came with an original tape deck and I intended to keep it for good use. It works like a charm after light diagnostics and tampering.

To celebrate I've been converting all my favorite albums over to tape for the false nostalgia of crappy sound quality I crave for my 87' Dodge Charger (No it is not a Shelby or a Turbo, which actually is a rarer find!)

Of course when converting new music over one needs to create album artwork or the whole process of this media retrofit would be worthless.

So today I will be teaching you how to properly format a tape album artwork using my little know-how.

As a side note, some of my favorite musical artists are showcased here. If you've never heard of them I recommend you take a listen! Thanks.

You will need Affinity designer or another equivalent like Photoshop

1 tape and case. You can find these at Walmart of all places in the media section right now! Don't walk, run to get them. They are cheap right now.

Walgreens Same Day Photo, or a high-quality printer!

First off Look At It!

Take a good long look at official tapes.

What do they have on them?

On the front page, we see album artwork, sometimes a title with the artists' name/s. Sometimes we even see a song lineup.

On the side, typically we will find the title, the artist's name or band name, the record company, and a random serial number.

Then on the back, we can typically find side A and side B tracklist separated. You may also find a barcode and the year the cassette was made.

This part is easy. I'm sure there are tons of albums in your favorites list. Start off with something simple to get your feet wet. I started out on Rex Orange Counties' Pony.

In this cover, I added a poster I found on Google to the front page. It already had the track list which I was grateful for.

For the

side I added in the title and a PNG of the record label, as well as another PNG

I found of the ROC Pony drawing.

On the back

I added in a barcode PNG I found on google, and some official looking stats as

well as a disclaimer that the cassette was not meant to be distributed or sold.

The size of this cassette was 4” x 4”

Other measurements

The front artwork area is 2.5"

The edge is .5"

The back is 1"

Other sizes may vary such as the 6.5” x 4”

Large artwork areas are 2.5" wide

Have fun with it! Do not distribute these I'm sure you can get in trouble. If I am asked to take this post down I will. I thought it would be helpful.