Here at Unconsumption, we love cassette-related repurposing; check out our collection of past posts here.
However, this photo shows two products that were designed specifically for iPhones: An iPhone cover that looks like a cassette tape, and a case that fits it.
So, no, this is not an old cassette tape case repurposed as a phone holder.
That said, an iPhone can be placed vertically in an old cassette tape case. Try it — it works well!
(via TechCrunch)
New Mexico-based artist and environmental educator Nancy Judd uses fashion to engage people in environmental issues.
Nancy’s “Recycle Runway” couture fashion sculptures made from trash include a “faux fur” coat — old cassette tapes woven into the fabric of a thrift store coat. Discarded video tape accents the coat’s collar and cuffs, and material from a thrift store dress was used inside as lining.
Nancy’s “junk mail dress” was one of the first items we featured on Unconsumption (back in 2009!). It’s here.
(Photo by Sandrine Hahn, via Recycle Runway)
See also: Earlier Unconsumption posts on new uses for cassettes here.
Pity the poor cassette tape, once the supreme format for listening to music, and now it’s relegated to a nostalgic curiosity. But all is not lost because it seems to have found a second life as an artistic material. Previously, we’ve seen it used to recreate classic album covers, and now graphic designer Benoit Jammes has used some old tapes he found lying around to make colorful artworks, some of which are based on film posters.
Jammes distills the poster or image into its elemental basics so the pictures become minimalist representations, full of bold colors and simple shapes for maximum visual impact. So if if you find some old tapes lying around in your parent’s basement gathering dust and looking forlorn, you now know what to do with them.
(via Cassette Tapes Get New Lease Of Life As Colorful Artworks | The Creators Project)
The image above, I eventually figured out, references Kill Bill advertising. Maybe you knew that?
Cassette Art by Benoit Jammes
When technological advances seem to happen almost daily it’s a struggle to find uses for old items that have now become redundant. With some clever chopping and remixing, Benoit’s playful portraits throw cassette tapes in to a whole variety of situations that they would never have found themselves in during the 80’s.
Nice! A cool addition to this gallery of cassette-related posts.
(via myedol)
Lighting made from cassettes. Here’s another example. And we’ve of course featured many other cassette-centric projects, browse them here.
(via Tape Lamp | Design Milk)
Cassette tape wallet by marcella foschi
via Design Boom
Beatles/Proclaimers mash up (Sgt Pepper/Sunshine on Leith)
“Cassette doilies are part of a series of random classic album pieces, all the cassettes are bought in second hand shops, found or given and the patterns were found free online and date from the 1920’s to the 1970’s. I’m a 2nd hand shop rummager and the things I’m always drawn to are pieces of crochet lace, books, vinyl and cassettes. This piece of work is made as a response to the feelings I get when I see a piece of work that’s taken many hours and has now been discarded or an album thats been listened to over and over again and now replaced with newer technology, or an old library book stamped many times and now on a thrift shop shelf. I think about the many times that object was handled during its making/listening/reading and about the thoughts and the feelings, hopes and aspirations experienced during that time by the anonymous owner/maker.”
Via Jennifer Cantwell; @j3ncantwell on Twitter.
For those of us who listened to cassette tapes, seeing them evokes a hint of nostalgia and brings back a lot of memories. It is based on this premise that Emmett McNamara, an architecture student at Edinburgh College of Art, built his temporary structure out of tapes. McNamara collected over 7,000 tapes to erect Tapehouse as a way of exploring material reuse and a way to create a deeper connection with viewers.
(via Inhabitat)
Cool. But using like a zillion plastic cable ties to connect the tapes? Maybe not so cool.
Via llacigart:
Nostalgia by Vanesa Moreno Serna
Image Courtesy of Hat Gallery
How timely, with news of Sony saying sayonara to Walkman cassette player production.
For additional cassette-related posts, find several of Unconsumption’s here, and over on Rob’s Murketing blog, check out the extensive collection in “The idea of the cassette: A gallery with musings.”
(via sosuperawesome)
“Taking advantage of its structural properties, a lamp/box has been created only by means of tying the tapes firmly together.”. (via OOO MY DESIGN — CASSETTE TAPES FLOOR LAMP)
![“Sonic fabric is woven from 50% recorded audio cassette tape and 50% colored thread the fabric is actually audible if you run a tape head over it!” Totally fascinating, no? Supermarket - recycled cassette tape thin necktie - black from improbable projects
[Thx: Piers!]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksutoyGpmg1qzv12bo1_400.jpg)
“Sonic fabric is woven from 50% recorded audio cassette tape and 50% colored thread the fabric is actually audible if you run a tape head over it!” Totally fascinating, no? Supermarket - recycled cassette tape thin necktie - black from improbable projects
[Thx: Piers!]
