Grateful Dead Tape Cover Tribute (2007) Adobe Illustrator

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Apr 1 2007

Around the turn of the millennium i decided to start making my own "digital" tape covers. Up until then I did them by hand using colored pencil, inks, airbrush and other materials.

In 2007 I took two of my digital tape covers and flipped them "foot to foot," threw em' into photoshop, pushed some buttons, squeezed some knobs, and shazam, I had me a Fillmore style looking kind of creation.

The rest is history. Obviously I can't get this to work for tape covers. But if I enlarged it, it's kind of got that old time 60's Kelly/Mouse/Moscoso/Griffin/Wilson poster art kind of feel. That alone made me happy. ; )

And the end result is my tribute to the GD phenomenon of live tapes/trading, etc. Wave that Flag! ; )

-Tom Mitt

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