Archive for category: Peter Saville

Peter Saville’s favourite things    (2018.07.26)

Starting with his mother’s charm bracelet

Peter Saville: Cultural canon and menacingly unfounded partnerships    (2013.12.26)

Peter Saville: So-called collaborative projects are “often menacingly unfounded partnerships between somebody who has some kind of credibility somewhere and the large companies who need that to keep enhancing their position”

Peter Saville’s unprecedented freedom    (2011.06.17)

“At Factory, I had a freedom that was unprecedented in communications design. We lived out an ideal, without business calling the shots. It was a phenomenon”

Personal work    (2009.01.22)

Why does graphic-design personal work even exist? Because of the Web. But don’t ask Creative Review

Further in Saville hagiography    (2008.07.01)

Peter Saville: “I saw the Roxy covers as an exercise in communication through styling”

FAC 461    (2007.08.12)

Tony Wilson, design rigour, ‘FAC 461’

‘It took ages to get the right yellow’    (2007.04.01)

I prefer the fictitious Peter Saville to the real one we’re stuck with now

Saville fears for us in our mid-life    (2007.01.11)

‘I find it quite worrying meeting people in their mid-life who are still fascinated by, you know, typefaces and layout’