Peter Saville

Peter Saville 

Peter Saville is one of the most popular British graphic designers. He gained a lot of his popularity by designing record sleeves for Factory Record, while serving as art director of the studios. In 1978 he had a meeting with Tony Wilson, the owner of a famous record label which entered him into the music industry. He was then commissioned to make the record labels first poster. After the poster went down well with the public he carried on working for the label and later on became a board member for them. He designed record sleeves for VIP clients such as Joy Division and New order.

I personally think that his designs are very cleverly created and that he is extremely creative when designing them. The free space on the Joy Division logo enhances your view onto the main logo therefore making it stand out more and actually making people look closer at the record sleeve instead of just skipping past it. On the PCL record sleeve he has cleverly designed it to look sad but peaceful at the same time as there are dying roses on it. This could foreshadow the albums tone of dying love, I have not listened to the album so therefore this is just an insight.

Joy Division’s record sleeve designs.Image result for peter saville joy division

Peter Saville covers: Closer

New Order’s record sleeve designs.

Peter Saville covers: Blue MondayPeter Saville covers: PCL

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  1. The selection of examples is great, but there is no annotation, you have described the artist briefly but not his work and your thoughts on it. For example, what is the connection between Joy Division’s ‘Unkown Pleasures’ album cover and space; provide the details, visual examples of the inspiration and your thoughts and this will begin to evidence a more thorough research strategy.

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