Peter Saville

Peter Saville

Peter was an English art director and graphic designer born in Manchester 9^th October 1955 he has designed many record sleeves for Factory Records. Peter studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic and then went to Manchester Metropolitan. He then got into the music scene after he met with Tony Wilson. Tony was a journalist and television presenter who appeared at Patti Smiths show in 1978 the meeting resulted in Wilson commissioning the first Factory Records poster this resulted with Peter becoming partners in Factory Records where he designed many record sleeves for artists through the company for Joy Division and New Order. By joining Factory Records he worked with Wilson, Martin Hannett, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus.