Canadian illustrator by the name Mathieu Beaulieu is no stranger to our Simple Plan news – back in March 2016 we first reported about the initial sketches of the [racoon t-shirt design [still available online!], which Pierre was in favor of for a significant part of the first part of the Taking One For The Team tour, and later on he also stood behind the design of Jeff’s latest guitar pick.
But that is not all that Mr. Beaulieu has contributed to Simple Plan when it comes to his designs. You may also remember the very popular mixtape cassette t-shirt [also still available online!], sold on both the Taking One For The Team tour and the No Pads tour, with the words “for When You Miss Me” scribbled on one of the sides of the cassette. These words obviously being a reference to the song “Nostalgic” from Taking One For The Team, where Pierre sings in the first verse:
It was the one I took
When we were driving on Sunset
Descendents playing on a mix CD
That you just made for me
You wrote “For when you miss me” on it
On his Behance profile, Mathieu Beaulieu now revealed some of the early sketches for this design, which sort of show of his thought-process.
Below on the burgundy field, you can see the finished version of the cassette design, in which the pulled out tape is cleverly formed into the shape of the letters S and P. Now, on the early designs, Mathieu played around with the pulled out tape quite a bit and one of the sketches for instance shows the tape shaped into the word “yeah”. All of the other original cassette tape designs also do not include the “for When You Miss Me” reference, but stick to the general name of the record this song can be found on – TOFTT. The only Nostalgic reference can be found on the CD design, which isn’t as “retro” or “nostalgic” as the rest, however many early Simple Plan fans might relate to a burned out CD better than a cassette, plus it also fits with the lyric reference, which is why this design might have been one of the contenders.
Check out all Mathieu Beaulieu’s sketches below and let us know what you think of them!
