Factory Records Style
ファクトリー・レコーズ / 1978–1992 / Style / Music Graphics
Saville's practice at the Manchester label: sleeves that refuse to explain the music, borrowing industrial color cards, classical paintings and waveform charts — post-punk's intelligent void made into style.
Refusal to explain / Borrowed imagery from other fields / Restrained typography / Catalogue numbers as institution
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Peter Saville / the Unknown Pleasures waveform / the Haçienda's graphics