Peter Saville

I am trying to view this without a a sense of bias as he is one of the very reasons that I am in the field of Graphic Design. His anthology of design for Factory Records was my bible prior to coming to uni.

Peter Saville is a graphic designer from Manchester. Even from his outset his ideals of post modernism were highly evident. His first piece for The Factory - re-appropriated a warning sign on a building site to a gig poster. Later on in his work for Joy division, he contextualized a science diagram for one of the most iconic albums of the punk era. New Order was the band, he did the most work for and a lot of that work has since been discovered to be re-appropriated. He has made no secret about this; "Better to quote... than to Parody ...it is more honest, more intellectual" from No More Rules: graphic design + post modernism.

On the left hand side is the original material, pre-appropriation by Peter Saville and on the right is the LP/Record cover.