Peter Saville is an English art director and graphic designer. He studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic.
During the 1980s, he designed record
sleeves for Factory Records for artist like Joy Division and New Order. He
became a pioneer of graphic design and culture. These projects mixed with music
resulted in remarkable images and elegance as form of self-expression to
articulate visual narratives of his life. Saville work with different
photographers to design his work and experiment with new techniques of
photography and typography.
“That his designs were so
entertaining and electic they were simply unlike anything else in the pop world
and he was himself using these sleeves to develop a narrative that was his own
personal history of graphic design.”
Saville’s reputation consolidated
him as a designer of music graphics and this commercialization and excess of
work make him works in other areas like fashion and made exhibition and
collaborated with other artist.
In 1990 to join the partner-owned
Pentagram, disillusioned with design and filled his work with images of
exhaustion and depletion, Saville left Pentagram in 1992 and started his own
studio in Mayfair. Since then his art is dedicated to the young generation and
in his personal projects.
Quotations
‘Designed by Peter Saville’
(2003) by
Frieze/Imprint of Durian Publications Ltd.
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