i made you a tape...

Have you ever made someone a mix tape? Not a mix CD, but an actual tape?
The feelings that you wanted to share with every song, what seemed so personal and maybe hard to say in your own words came out in the music.

With this design I wanted to illustrate the personal giving of the tape, and in an illustrative cartoonish way, straight from the source. The melting pot of the mix tape, the boom-box.

Also, view other color options in my blog.
Thank you for checking this out!
Adam

Awesome! I'd like it centered, I think.

Yeah, those was the times when we record how we feel in a tape and send it to our love ones. Nice!

radio = 5$

aww... reminds me of junior high. i like the illustration and patterns. check out my sub for the last kiss, i have a boombox too :) 5$

I don't think it communicates the theme of the competition particularly well, but oh well.

wonderful illustration, great design...but not really for the theme

Awesome illustration, but I do agree with the above comments about the theme.

great illustration

In response to the comments that don't think this design relates to the theme, check out my description above.

In the film summary it says "clutching on to everything that was free, innocent, and fun about being young.” To some people, making a mixtape for some one they liked is a memory that encapsulates all of those things. Though you may grow old, there are still those funny little expressions that remind you of times past.

This is nicely done.

this is a fantastic illustration

awesome illustration

the art is great. but it's kinda scary o.o 4

You could only make a tape on that boom box if you were recording off the radio...no second tape deck, no cd player...have YOU ever made a mix tape?

I knew this question would come up. Very observant!
I decided to make it a single cassette player so it was less wide.

Back in the day kids would request songs off the radio, and then record them. I received tapes this way growing up.

haha, "I made you a tape". Cool style. I like the monochromatic color scheme you're pimpin' here.

Great character & color. I especially love the decorative blue lines shooting out of the blue....they look like fancy armpit hair.

I like the colors and style

no text and $5

Other than the placement, this is fantastic.
The patterns and the overall feel of this illustration is GREAT! I just really dislike where you have it on the shirt. But, that can be changed. It would look just fine a bit larger and centered or maybe bottom placement.

If I could go back, I would have submitted this one in the Flash template with a little interactive music player. 20/20 hindsight.

SUPER illustration!!! Adam, u r rocking,,,,great work! 5

sweeet... love your stuff man.$5

very nice.

I love this! I would buy it, it conveys all the feelings it should and is still something to make me smile and be a nice tshirt design.

Thank you all for the great feedback!
Although the voting is over, and in the end "i made you a tape" didn't receive a high score, I still feel very strongly about this one, and the meaning behind it.

This is on a Navy Blue shirt.

this deserved a higher score

Thinking about redrawing this for a re-sub...