After a week of fiddling we finally managed to get a somewhat decent (I hope) banner up for the site. Some of you may recognize my inspiration right away, others may think it is something from a construction zone. While the latter is true to a certain extent, the banner was acutally inspired by the work of Peter Saville, a Manchester-based graphic designer famous for the design of record sleeves and posters for Factory Records artists, most notably for Joy Division and New Order.
‘Fac 1′ is the first poster designed by Peter which arrived late for the opening of the Factory at the Russell Club in Manchester. A simple looking poster for it’s time, Saville found elegantly ordered art more appealing than the anarchic style of punk graphics of the late 70′s. He actually based the Factory poster on an industrial warning sign he had stolen from a door at college.
FAC 1
He went on to design the majority of album covers and posters for Factory Records and always had the amazing ability to take an image from one genre and recontextualize it in another.
If you want to have a look at Peter’s collection and even download fonts he has used on classic posters and albums, head on over to his website.
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