Designed by Peter Saville

Peter Saville's record sleeves for Factory Records recast graphic design as a form of authorship in its own right, and this monograph is the first sustained account of a career that reshaped how music, fashion and corporate identity look.

Edited by Emily King with an essay by Peter York, the book moves chronologically from Saville's earliest work for Factory — including the cover of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures and New Order's ongoing sleeve designs — through his later work in fashion, advertising and civic branding, among it Manchester's own identity campaign. Reproductions of posters, sleeves and ephemera are set against interview transcripts and critical texts that track his shifting relationship to originality, appropriation and commercial constraint.

Saville remains one of the most influential graphic designers of his generation, and the book situates his practice within the wider history of British design culture, from the post-punk moment that made his reputation to the branding consultancies that later employed it.