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Peter Saville is a British graphic designer whose work has graced many with beautiful album sleeve art. He\u2019s well known for being the primary design voice of the influential Manchester label Factory Records, though his work certainly doesn\u2019t stop there\u2014he designed mainstream releases for Peter Gabriel, Wham! and Duran Duran as well.<\/p>\n
He was inspired by punk designer Malcolm Garret, several subversive typographers and well known modernist painters. His work often re-appropriates other works (typographic sets, photos, paintings), combine it with other work or his own ideas, which would completely change its original context. His work stood out in a sea of schmaltzy, cheesy and homogenous album covers in the 70s, 80s and beyond. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n
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Source :\u00a0petersaville.info<\/a><\/p>\n This single\u2019s cover is pure, blissful cartography. The colors evoke a sandy, out-of-the-way beach area and the actual geography gives the impression that this beach is something exotic to the point of being otherworldly. The type is set in a subtle and tasteful way that mimics traditional maps but still works perfectly for a record sleeve. The song is about escaping from a humdrum life to a figurative beach, and this cover conveys that message perfectly.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a0musicstack.com<\/a><\/p>\n This landmark album by Eno and Byrne heavily incorporated samples to a ghostly, startling effect. The sampled voices are like phantoms hovering over Eno and Byrne\u2019s music, and the cover seems to present three prominent-but-abstract ghosts floating over a hazy landscape. The colors are watered down and washed out at points, and are completely dominated by the ghostly figures. Again, Saville was in top form.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a0petersaville.info<\/a><\/p>\n This wasn\u2019t a Factory release, but it came out of Saville\u2019s studio anyway. This one is a pretty simple affair, but that\u2019s why it works on so many levels. That mountain range, with its jagged whites, greys and blacks is a beautiful piece of design that breaks up the blue background in just the right way. There\u2019s also some real energy here despite the muted colors and serene image, and that\u2019s thanks to the lightning-bolt-like lines of the mountain itself.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a045cat.com<\/a><\/p>\n Electronic was a super group comprised of The Smiths\u2019 Johnny Marr, New Order\u2019s Bernard Sumner and the Pet Shop Boys\u2019 Neil Tennant. This single sleeve is also a superstar effort from Saville. The black background is a great showcase for the designer\u2019s own reworking of a simple stock photo and text rendered in sentence case. The whiskey looks elegant and decadent, but its true nature makes those feelings questionable. Simple, mysterious and vaguely untrustworthy\u2014what a great design.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a0petersaville.info<\/a><\/p>\n Upon first glance, this is just a brilliant rendering of some kind of flower. When coupled with the song though, it takes on another meaning. \u2018The Love Parade\u2019 is about adultery, which hits home when you consider the fleeting and fertile nature of a beautiful flower. From a purely design standpoint, this single cover is remarkable. The flower\u2019s two colors are vibrant without being garish, the typeface is perfect and the use of that weathered-looking negative space is brilliant.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a0cvltnation.com<\/a><\/p>\n We can\u2019t discuss Peter Saville without showing some of the work he did for Joy Division, one of Factory\u2019s most-beloved bands. The design is mysterious and looks like it could be anything, even though it\u2019s vaguely sinister. It\u2019s actually the frequency of the signal from a pulsar, which the band pulled out of the Cambridge Encylopedia of Astronomy and gave to Saville. He inverted the colors, worked his magic and came up with this haunting masterpiece.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a045cat.com<\/a><\/p>\n We can\u2019t have Peter Saville without Joy Division, and we can\u2019t discuss Joy Division without discussing New Order. I\u2019m not sure what Saville\u2019s process was on the cover to this legendary single, but that\u2019s part of the charm\u2014any painter, designer or other visual artist can just look at it for hours and wonder how it was composed. It\u2019s also warm, bouncy and strangely foreboding in a way.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a0tumblr.com<\/a><\/p>\n This design is both minimalistic and super-modern. It\u2019s also timeless\u2014I could easily see a lot of modern electronic or indie pop bands using something very similar for a 2012 or 2013 release. This particular variant comes from the 4th pressing of the record, but this color combination is my favorite out of any of them. This is just like drawing a perfect circle\u2014there\u2019s no better way to demonstrate your talent than to produce something like this.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a0stereocandies.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n This was the first release that Factory ever put out, so it\u2019s only appropriate that we include it in this showcase. The design is, of course, the selling point\u2014industrial blacks and greys show a factory worker listening to headphones atop 3 bold lines and simple typeset. Its asymmetry looks fantastic and really highlights all of its basic elements. The presentation is interesting, as well\u2014it was printed on dyed rice paper and sealed inside of a flimsy plastic bag. Needless to say, it\u2019s pretty rare to find one in good condition.<\/p>\n Source :\u00a045cat.com<\/a><\/p>\n This is another little-known super group of sorts, and it\u2019s a shame this design work lingers in obscurity. The cover itself is creepy and ethereal, with gloved hands obscuring the woman\u2019s face. Other parts of the record sleeve show a sequence of such images which both reference the album title and the band\u2019s name. The typeface, negative space and central image work together in perfect harmony. This design evokes a glamorous, dreamy despair that I\u2019ve never quite found in any other album cover. \u2018Dream Sequences\u2019 is an undisputed, if under-appreciated, classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peter Saville is a British graphic designer whose work has graced many with beautiful album sleeve art. He\u2019s well known for being the primary design voice of the influential Manchester label Factory Records, though his work certainly doesn\u2019t stop there\u2014he designed mainstream releases for Peter Gabriel, Wham! and Duran Duran as well. More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":12560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-showcase"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n2. Brian Eno\/David Byrne \u2013 My Life in the Bush of Ghosts<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n3. Ultravox \u2013 We Came to Dance<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n4. Electronic \u2013 Getting Away with It<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n5. The Dream Academy \u2013 The Love Parade<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n6. Joy Division \u2013 Unknown Pleasures<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n7. New Order \u2013 Bizarre Love Triangle<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n8. OMD – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n9. A Factory Sample<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\n10. Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls \u2013 Dream Sequences<\/h2>\n
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