TYPO Speaker

Peter Saville

Peter Saville

Peter Saville is one of the most important designers working today. Since making his name twenty years ago as Art Director and co-founder of Factory Records, the legendary independent record label, he has created iconic graphics for such bands as Joy Division, New Order, Suede and Pulp.

He has worked extensively in the fashion industry for clients including Jil Sander, Yohji Yamamoto and Christian Dior: as well as executing corporate identity projects for ABC Television, Mandarina Duck and Mercedes-Benz. In the visual arts, Saville’s clients have included Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Natural History Museum, Barbican Centre and Design Museum in London.

After two years as a partner of Pentagram in London during the early 1990s, Peter Saville worked as a creative director of Frankfurt Balkind in Los Angeles before returning to London to set up an independent studio. He now concentrates on his own creative projects, consulting for corporate clients – including CNN, EMI, Givenchy, Gucci and Selfridges – on branding and identity issues and the development of fashion multimedia. Together with long-time collaborator, Nick Night, Saville co-founded and now co-curates SHOWstudio, the critically acclaimed Internet showcase for fashion, art, design and creative technology. Spring 2003 saw the Design Museum hosting a retrospective of Saville’s work coinciding with his eagerly awaited first book.

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