Peter Saville D&AD President’s Lecture

The Creative Review blog has posted some highlights from Peter Saville’s President’s Lecture for D&AD.

Saville, while he was art director for Factory Records, is the man behind the great record covers for Joy Division and New Order. He was also briefly a partner with Pentagram in the early 90s.

Closer by Joy Division, 1980

Closer by Joy Division, 1980


Power Corruption and Lies album for New Order, 1983


True Faith single for New Order, 1987

And one of my favourite albums:

New Order, Technique, 1989

New Order, Technique, 1989

Saville has exhibited internationally, with a major retrospective staged at London’s Design Museum and subsequently in Tokyo and Manchester in 2003.

You can see more of his work here and here.

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