Saville, Peter

UK

jury member

In 1978 Peter Saville became a founding partner in Factory Records with a journalist Anthony Wilson,Joy Division's manager Rob Gretton and actor Alan Erasmus. After moving to London in 1979, he became art director of the Virgin offshoot Din Disc. Between 1978 and 1983, Saville created a body of work which furthered his refined take on Modernism, the work he did for Joy Division and their later incarnation New Order may have formed the crux.He also worked for clients, e.g. Roxy Music, Ultravox, Peter Gabriel, Pulp, Suede and OMD. After the dissolution of Din Disc in 1982, Saville, along with his collaborators, the photographer Trevor Key and Brett Wickens formed Peter Saville Associates (PSA). During these years, music industry clients were joined by institutions like the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, the Pompidou Centre, Paris, and the French Ministry of Culture, as well as fashion clients such as Yohji Yamamoto, Martin Sitbon, Christian Dior and Jill Sander. By 1990 PSA closed. In 1992 Saville and Wickens designed a station identity for Channel 1 in Los Angeles. They joined Frankfurt Balkind's Los Angeles office as creative directors in 1993. Saville left in the summer of 1994; their thirteen year partnership was at an end. After his return to London in 1994, reacquainted with his former assistant Howard Wakenfield, he began to work as a freelance for British and European clients, including London Records, and to review the Mandarina Duck. Along with his long-term collaborator the photographer NickKnight, they set up the website SHOWstudio.com. His work for the site remained marginal after it went online in early 2001, since then he has been working with a fluid team of independent designers and creative consultants, to do work for a client list that includes Alexander McQueen, EMI, Stella McCartney, Givenchy and Adidas. In March 2004,he was appointed Creative Director for Manchester.

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