Peter Saville

Peter Saville

Peter Saville was born in 1955 and is well known throughout the fine art and advertising world. Using a reduced, Modernist style Peter Saville has made key innovations in the field of visual communications, and in recent times he has had a profound effect on the interplay between art, design and advertising.Peter Saville studied Graphic Design at Manchester Polytechnic from 1974 to 1978.

Saville's friendship with fellow student Malcolm Garrett, who had begun designing album covers for the Buzzcocks in 1976, was also of great significance. Unusual for the time, however, was Saville's insistence on recalling a historical consciousness of graphic design. His concern to present products graphically, and thus permit the flow of a visual "Zeitgeist" ran in blatant contradiction to the established teaching methods of the institutions, steeped in the spirit of the 1970s, which regarded graphic communication as time and context free.

The piece above is called 'True Faith'. I have always been drawn to images that involve nature, such as trees, water and grassland. Here i find myself yet again interested in this image of a Autumn leaf on a blue background. I find something peacful about the image and it makes me feel at ease.