Designer Peter Saville on Joy Division and Distorting the Lacoste Croc
To call Peter Saville a design legend may seem a bit of a hackneyed choice of phrase, but, it’s a correct one. He’s best known as the guy who created the famous/infamous pulsar pattern for Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures or to a younger generation, the reason Supreme stuck roses on everything for Spring Summer.
Saville’s work has included consultation and design for the likes of Ultravox, Roxy Music, Yohji Yamamoto, SHOWstudio, Dior, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Barbican, Givenchy, Pringle, Selfridges and soon to be added to that list, Kanye West. His latest project has seen him take one of the most iconic symbols in fashion and give it a right old makeover – 80 of them in fact. In celebration of Lacoste’s 80th anniversary, graphic designer took the crocodile and, in his words, “distorted” it. Two Lacoste lines – diffusion and limited edition (available at select retailers worldwide) – are available with the latter offering the opportunity of purchasing a signed, numbered shirt with its own completely unique croc.
Source: selectism.com
Joy Division - "The Complete BBC Recordings" VIDEO
Complete BBC Recordings album by Joy Division was released Oct 24, 2000 on the Fuel 2000 label. The pioneering post-punk sound of Joy Division is experienced here with stark clarity and an up-front feeling that belies the somewhat distant production approach on the group's studio efforts. While the coming-from-the-next-room sound of Closer and Unknown Pleasures adds to the overall feeling of alienation that is a large part of the groups raison d'etre, The Complete BBC Recordings offers something more immediate. Complete BBC Recordings music CDs In this live-in-the-studio setting, the cold smack of electronics, the bare desperation in Ian Curtis's voice, and the gritty post-punk rattle of the guitar and bass gain a new viscerality. Complete BBC Recordings songs Even such warhorses as "She's Lost Control" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart" gain a new resonance in this context." Recorded at BBC Studios, London, England in 1979.