Peter Saville

Peter Saville is an art director and a graphic designer who was well known for designing record sleeves in the 1980’s. Peter Saville was widely recognised for designing album sleeves for factory record’s which is a British independent record label. The main artists he designed for were joy division and new order.

Saville was mainly inspired by Jan Tschichold who was a typographer, book designer, teacher and a writer. Saville also designed for many other artists such as King Crimson and Roxy Music. He built his career with his interest in modernism. Saville also worked for the famous design group Pentagram and was involved in the fashion sector where he worked with known clients such as Selfridges, John Galliano, and Christian Dior. Saville also had a passion in different areas of design. In 2010 he also designed the Home shirt for the England football team.

Above is one of Saville’s well-known record cover’s which he designed for Joy Division’s album called ‘Unknown pleasure’s. The design on this cover is based on a frequency of a signal from the first ever observed pulsar.

Saville inspires me within my work as I also have a big interest in designing album covers. I really admire how he uses simple and complicated designs and techniques with his personal twist to create such effective covers.

http://designmuseum.org/design/peter-saville

http://www.hardformat.org/designers/peter-saville-designer/

http://www.uproxx.com/music/2012/10/peter-saville-joy-division/

http://www.avocadosweet.com/joy-divisions-unknown-pleasures-album-cover-designer/