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- zedvox0
i concur.
- spongebob0
got milk?
- _me_0
why is he god?
Explain.
Talk to me about his strategic thinking, why it was that way, what you think he was trying to achieve, how, in your eyes he did it....
etc.etc.
- jox0
- pcas0
it should be noted saville-associates.com is a collective, not a person.
- jox0
.. but yeah, Saville is go(o)d. Love what they did with Givenchy.
- Jnr_Madison0
_me_, can you talk to me about your strategic thinking and what you were trying to achieve by having en entry page to a 'coming soon' page?
- pcas0
peter saville is famous for the same reasons New Order are.
take from that comment what you will
- kezza_20
fuck off _me_
your obviously in a shit mood...
you wouldnt know creative strategy if it bit you in the arse
where do you work in Sydney btw
- kezza_20
I just think he is the best practicing graphic designer/artist in the world, that and he fucks loads of super models
- _me_0
my strategic thinking is that i need more time to finish my stuff. every so often the second page changes to amusing stuff or a latest piece of work - currently its just on its 'update coming soon' holding pattern.
kezza - you thinking that you know me. heh. i'm a consultant at many places. currently here in sydney. i see your website is 'coming soon' also :P
far from being in a bad mood, just a bit over the - this shit is great - this shit is crap threads but with no reasoning why - either for or against... ppl must have their trucker caps on too tight as they seem not to be using their brains but just pointing at things like neanderthals....
- zedvox0
and thats why he is god.
hi kezza ;)
- _me_0
sorry - update comingsoon comment was for jnr_madson - apologies kezza.
- _me_0
ha..netboii coming soon also.
- kezza_20
I'm too busy working (in Sydney) to do a website...That and I havenay got a computer
- zedvox0
me doood
take a chill pill
this is a fourm not a thesis defense where we have to explaing some other guy;s strategies.
but really look at the work its beautiful. and he fucks supermodels.and while we are at it.....Tibor Kalman is a god.
- kezza_20
Some people don't need a reason to say they are great...
Saville has been doing it for soo ooo long, and he's English he set up factory records, which spawned New Order, Joy Division, Happy Mondays amoungst others and his use of colour in everything is just incredible...
I came across the link so I thought I'd share
- _me_0
I'm English too... so what?
Tony Wilsons philosophies were the genius behind Factory...
Mr. Saville was late with the first Faç1 poster and with a typo if i remember correctly. plus some of his designs cost more to produce than they got back on selling them. heh. however, still nice work if you can get it!!
- kezza_20
see, a god
- vespa0
saville was god because he changed the direction of graphic design from the prevalent pentagram style of corporate witty visual puns that were all content and no style (e.g. a logo for a restaurant being a plate with a bite taken out of it, wtf does that tell you about the ambience of the place and the style of the food?) to stealing and combining visuals from seemingly unrelated genres and reassembling them to create a new context and way of looking at things. a way of looking at things that was sexy and glam and rockstar and all those things the design establishment at the time wasn't.
e.g. appropriating Henri Fantin-Latour's Fleurs for Power Corruption and Lies and using an encyclopaedic image of a soundscan of the moon (actually i can't remember if that's what it was but something like that) for Unknown Pleasures. he couldn't hold down a 9-5 job, his company went bust and New Order lost a little money with every copy of Blue Monday sold (the biggest selling 12" of all time) because of the production costs of that fabulous floppy disk cover but that just confirms in my eyes that he was designing out of passion for ideas rather than being a facsimile slave to corporate market forces in the way so many designers are. i wouldn't have wanted to finance him but i'll always buy into his attitude.