Functional Horror

An interesting interview with Peter Saville. He did the graphic design for Factory Records as well as a few album covers for Pulp (J.C. is Dan’s boy). It’s been my opinion that Saville is little overrated and arrogant, but this interview changed my perception of him a bit.

On Factory and designing record covers:

Complete liberty… Strangely out of disinterest. It was New Order’s disinterest and agreed policy of disagreement that allowed it.

I had this kind of autonomous moment, which arose within the context of Factory, for a decade, which was unlike any similar situation that I have experienced since and it’s very unlikely to happen again. The many circumstances of Factory itself; Ian Curtis’ death, the whole range of things that happened, created this autonomous platform, with a very large reach, to do what I wanted.

Referenced in the interview is the Style Mixer, which I just discovered in flash format.