And not just the giant, colorful album artwork of vinyl records or holographic DVD cases, either: even the nondescript boxes for blank VHS tapes had a certain charm, if you looked for it.

Videodrome VHS Of course the covers for movies are visually arresting, but equally interesting are the utilitarian pieces. Blank VHS cassettes needed covers as well. Designers chose minimal ...

For decades, though, video came encased in plastic rectangles called VHS tapes, which were played on one of the first classic consumer gadgets: the VCR. Like most forms of nostalgia, a ...