Design Essay

Graphic Designer Essay : Peter Saville

Peter Saville,born on October 9 1955 in Manchester United Kingdom,was an English Artist and a Graphic Artist. Peter used to attend the St Ambrose College and later on enrolled to the Manchester Metropolitan University. Saville was most known for his Factory Records.

Peter Saville

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His Factory Records and his works really look amazing and with his style he included works for music bands such as Joy Division. His work is unique and some of which looks like the blending tool with the pen on the Illustrator. It really has a simplitic feel yet it looks super artistic and gets a lot of attention. His inspiration was most probably the book that Herbert Spencer had written called "Pioneers of Modern Typography". Peter used to work as a founder partner and later on as an Art Director. But starting 1983,Saville had started his own studio called the "Peter Saville Associates".

Peter Saville - Joy Division Cover

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My most favourite cover Saville has is most probably the cover art for the Joy Division band. Peter's work has been an influence to his friend Robert Longo. Longo had told Peter to look at the band and said that the music of them was a huge inspiration. To me this art style is unique because of the texture it gives and the line artwork it has. It's as if it was made with strings. This inspires me because of how good it looks and how amazing it is to make it on Illustrator and it also gives you the feeling that the pattern is being repeated like as if only 5 strings were used and were then pasted again and again.

Peter Saville - Album Cover

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His work was influenced by Malcolm Garrett. This student had begun designing for the Manchester Punk group. He was a British Graphic Designer who had made works for music bands such as Duran Duran and Simple Minds. I really like Peter's works and can see the influence he had from Malcolm.

Malcolm Garrett - Simple Minds Cover

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Saville really enjoyed making these cover arts and he also said that "To be horribly honest,as a graphic designer the one period of my life when everything felt right and fell into place from 1978 to perhaps 1986,the period during which i was doing record covers and happy to be doing record covers". (Eyemagazine.com,19/04/2015)

Peter enjoyed making them and the art style which he used really inspires me. It reminds me of a magazine,even the font he uses and the Typography. It feels like it is seen on a magazine and the imagery and art he makes aswell.

Peter Saville - New Order Technique

(1989)

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This is another artwork done by Peter Saville for the New Order band. I like this art piece because of the colours it brings and of the statue used. The colour used is mixed well in contrast with the warm colour of red and the cold of the blue. The purple then mixes in both of them and forms the background which to me shows a connection and peace. The colour on the statue also has a texture which shows and gives an effect to the statue. I really like this and it really fits in well for a music cover.

Peter Saville - Mirror Blue

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Saville's work was then established in the Design Museum in London where most of his body works were shown. This exhibition was held in 2003. This exhibition was called "The Peter Saville Show" and it was open between May and September.

Peter Saville Show Images and Works

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Sources

Design History,Peter Saville (Online Site)

http://www.designishistory.com/1980/peter-saville/#

(First Accessed in 19 April 2015)

Eye Magazine,Peter Saville Article (Online Site)

http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/reputations-peter-saville#

(First Accessed in 19 April 2015)

Wikipedia,Peter Saville Graphic Designer (Online Site)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Saville_%28graphic_designer%29

(First Accessed in 19 April 2015)