I run a pretty disorganised tape label called Tye Die Tapes with a friend and we were sadly lacking in artwork for one of our most recent releases. I decided that it was my duty to provide a fairly ad-hoc solution to the problem. The result can be seen above. I felt that the process is worth documenting, if only so that I remember what I did. I began by scanning a page from a book that I have mentioned on here called Motor Driving Made Easy, it's a guide to driving from the early 1950s and has some comedy moments. I picked this particular page because it had variation and a decent sized body of text that contained some interesting sentences. I then printed the scan I had made and began to doodle on it, scrapped that one and repeated the process until I was happy with it. I then decided on a logo, a decision that was guided mainly by my inability to draw properly and inevitably I ended up with something approximating punk. I then picked the most appropriate place for the logo (which is always the top, by the way) and scribbled it on. I then scanned the title page of the book to give me some of the off-white background that could be used on the side and the spine and I decided that, by way off apology for what may or may not be reckless abuse of copyright, I placed the title of Motor Driv
ing Made Easy on the rear of the tape. The first draft (also the one that I sent to the band) had the logo on the spine in Garamond 12pt but it didn't really fit with the front cover so I copied one of my doodles of the logo onto the spine. The inside is simply the tracklist in similar writing to the Sealings logo with more of the off-white title page as a background. The finished article can be seen above. The tape will be released by the end of June on Tye Die Tapes and is my favourite TDT release so far, I'm not bored of it after listening to the tape 40 times while dubbing it.
