Inspirational Designer - Peter Saville

Peter Saville is an English graphic designer and art director, born in 1955. He is well known for album covers that he created for the record label 'Factory Records' where he worked with a variety of bands and artists. 

In 1979, whilst he was an art director for 'Factory Records', Saville designed the record cover for Joy Devision - Unknown Pleasures (displayed bellow) and this is one of his most well known designs. This cover was very popular and is still very recognisable for the band due to its simple yet very striking lines that draw the viewers attention. This was quite controversial due to its depiction of Christ's body entombed and it was released very shortly after Ian Curtis' suicide. 

Saville was heavily inspired by Herbert Spencer's book 'Pioneers of Modern Typography' and he found a chapter he found interesting, which allowed him to "find a parallel in it for the New Wave that was evolving out of Punk."

I find Peter Saville's work very inspiring and feel like it is influencing my work as it is based around the same era as I am looking at. It uses simple line work to create powerful designs, for example the one displayed bellow. This displays different coloured lines on a plain black background and draws the viewers attention due to the bright colours and then need to create a meaning out of this. My main design of an outline of a models face was influenced by Saville as I wanted to use simple lines, but powerful colours in order to attract attention.