Category: Album cover

Peter Saville

Known for his iconic designs for Joy Division and New Order record sleeves, Manchester-born Peter Saville became a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture ever since his first work for Factory Records in the late 1970s.

Encouraged by friend Malcolm Garrett from early on to discover the work of early modern movement typographers, Saville found their elegantly ordered aesthetic more appealing than the anarchic style of punk graphics and from them drew the inspiration for his first commercial project, the 1978 launch poster for The Factory nightclub in Manchester. When the club spawned the Factory Records label, Saville was named its art director and given unprecedented level of freedom to design whatever he wanted.

His body of work features many experimentations with printing techniques and further on with digital tools, but Saville is well-known for his refined take on Modernism and has worked with notoriously minimalist brands such as Jil Sander and Raf Simons. He has also recently designed the English football team home shirt.

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Denoising Field Recordings

Hans Renzler is responsible for the beautiful design of this record, Denoising Field Recordings.

The recoding uses denoising techniques, bringing trains, streets, swimminghalls and public transports, all to create a new experience.

This interesting deduction method is matched beautifully with Renzler’s design of the transparent 12″ vinyl, in my favourite colour combination, white on white.

You can find yourself a copy by contacting the guys at Wald Entertainment

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Revep EP album cover

This beauty is the 2006 super-limited transparent vinyl version of Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto’s Revep EP.

Their label Raster Noton is well-known for their attention to album cover design, but they’ve gone all the way on this one.

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