New-Wave Cassette Album Cover

ChatGPT (DALL·E)

By Varun Sharma Tested with ChatGPT (DALL·E) GPT Image 2 Aug 9, 2026

A GPT Image 2 prompt for a 1980s new-wave album cover — a blank cassette graphic on a pastel pink-mint gradient with Memphis-design triangles and a blank title bar, no text.

Last tested: August 2026 with ChatGPT (DALL·E) GPT Image 2

Part of the ChatGPT (DALL·E) prompt library · see more vintage prompts .

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New-wave album cover with a blank cassette on a pink-mint pastel gradient, geometric triangles, and a blank title bar — New-Wave Cassette Album Cover — ChatGPT (DALL·E) GPT Image 2, Aspect ratio 1:1

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Prompt

A 1980s new-wave album cover illustration, a blank cassette tape graphic with no label centred on a pastel pink and mint-green gradient, geometric triangles and a thin chevron pattern in the corners, a blank black title bar across the top, synth-pop Memphis-design styling, flat vector shapes, no text, no letters, no numerals

Settings

Model: ChatGPT (DALL·E) GPT Image 2
Aspect ratio: 1:1

How to use this prompt

"Memphis-design styling" is the anchor that pulls DALL·E toward the 1980s Sottsass postmodern look rather than generic retro — the chevrons and triangles are the vocabulary of that movement and naming them separately gives the cover real period texture. The cassette must be "blank" with "no label" because DALL·E will fill any blank tape label with garbled band-name text; the blank title bar follows the same rule. Pastel pink and mint is the synth-pop pairing; say "neon" and you drift toward synthwave, a different genre. Flat vector shapes stop DALL·E from rendering a photoreal cassette that kills the graphic intent. Keep every shape geometric or the Memphis discipline dissolves into clutter.

Variations to try

Swap the cassette for a blank floppy disk for a synth-software concept
Recolour to lavender and acid yellow for a more aggressive electroclash palette

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For developers — copy this prompt as JSON

{
  "title": "New-Wave Cassette Album Cover",
  "prompt": "A 1980s new-wave album cover illustration, a blank cassette tape graphic with no label centred on a pastel pink and mint-green gradient, geometric triangles and a thin chevron pattern in the corners, a blank black title bar across the top, synth-pop Memphis-design styling, flat vector shapes, no text, no letters, no numerals",
  "model": "ChatGPT (DALL·E)",
  "model_version": "GPT Image 2",
  "settings": {
    "aspect_ratio": "1:1"
  },
  "style_tags": [
    "vintage",
    "flat-design"
  ],
  "use_case_tags": [
    "album-covers",
    "illustration"
  ],
  "source_url": "https://promptkoi.com/prompts/dalle/new-wave-cassette-album-cover/"
}

The whole library is available as an open JSON dataset · developer docs.