VHS movies covers offered a new landscape for art, roughly 11" x 8".The VHS ... but equally interesting are the utilitarian pieces. Blank VHS cassettes needed covers as well.

I had a book a while back that celebrated the joy of video cassette box art. The book was "The Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art of the VHS Box." I bought it maybe 10 years ago at That’s ...

The 82-year-old has turned black spools of disused cassette tape into pieces of art to raise awareness about recycling. "At the moment all your VHS tape ... with a black box at the end which ...

than some audio cassette decks." The system was called Vidstar. The VCR would cost $1,280. That's about $4,600 in inflation-adjusted dollars. Blank tapes were priced at $20 ($72 these days). VHS ...

Many commercial works, like the box for David Cronenberg's Videodrome, for example, sought to overwhelm and stand out. Of course the covers for movies are visually arresting, but equally interesting ...