Saville grew in demand as a younger generation of people in advertising and fashion had grown up with his work for Factory Records. In 1999 Saville moved to offices in Clerkenwell. The Apartment produced works for clients such as Mandarina Duck and Smart Car. (The same apartment is depicted in the record sleeve of Pulp's album This Is Hardcore). Saville's modernist apartment in Mayfair doubled as the London studio. For three years they worked from "The Apartment" in partnership with German advertising agency Meiré & Meiré. Saville soon returned to London, however, where he asked designer Howard Wakefield to restart the design studio. In 1993 Saville left London and moved to Los Angeles, to join ad agency Frankfurt Balkind with Brett Wickens. Saville collaborated with Transport for Greater Manchester in 2008 for the rebranding of the Metrolink tram system with a yellow and silver polka-dot scheme after a period of significant expansion had been undertaken on the network. Saville founded the design agency Peter Saville Associates (still designing primarily for musical artists and record labels), which included Brett Wickens, before he was invited to close his office in 1990 to join the partner-owned Pentagram. He was paid more to design Gabriel's 1986 album So than for any other record sleeve in his career he received £20,000. During his time at Dindisc, he also designed the sleeve for Canadian band Martha and the Muffins’ album Metro Music. He subsequently created a body of work that furthered his refined take on modernism, producing work for artists such as Roxy Music, Wham!, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Ultravox and Peter Gabriel. In 1979, Saville moved from Manchester to London and became art director of the Virgin offshoot Dindisc. His reputation for missing deadlines is comically highlighted in the film. In the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, which is based on Tony Wilson and the history of Factory Records, Saville is portrayed by actor Enzo Cilenti. A Fantin-Latour "Roses" painting in combination with a colour-coded alphabet became the seminal album cover for New Order's Power, Corruption & Lies (1983), for example." he would directly and irreverently "lift" an image from one genre-art history for example-and recontextualise it in another. Design critic Alice Twemlow wrote: ". in the 1980s . Saville's output from this period included re-appropriation from the canon of art and design. However, the design pre-dated Curtis's death, which the magazine New Musical Express confirmed, since it had been displaying proofs of the artwork in its offices for several months. Saville's album design for Joy Division's last album, Closer, released shortly after Ian Curtis' suicide in May 1980, was controversial in its depiction of Christ's body entombed. He used to get really mad about it." Kelly and Saville won a Designers and Art Directors Award for the sleeve of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's 1980 self-titled first album. Saville credited Kelly as a major influence on his work, saying "I thought I could just take things from Ben, like he was a reference book or something. Saville collaborated with Ben Kelly on numerous projects during this period. I found a parallel in it for the New Wave that was evolving out of Punk." The one chapter that he hadn't reinterpreted in his own work was the cool, disciplined "New Typography" of Tschichold and its subtlety appealed to me. According to Saville: "Malcolm had a copy of Herbert Spencer's Pioneers of Modern Typography. Influenced by fellow student Malcolm Garrett, who had begun designing for the Manchester punk group, Buzzcocks and by Herbert Spencer's Pioneers of Modern Typography, Saville was inspired by Jan Tschichold, chief propagandist for the New Typography. Peter Saville designed many record sleeves for Factory artists, most notably for Joy Division and New Order.
Saville was a partner in Factory Records along with Wilson, Martin Hannett, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus. The meeting resulted in Wilson commissioning the first Factory poster ( FAC 1). Saville became involved in the music scene after meeting Tony Wilson, the journalist and broadcaster. He studied graphic design at Manchester Polytechnic from 1975 to 1978. Peter Saville was born in Manchester, Lancashire, and attended St Ambrose College. 7 Selected record and CD covers by Saville.
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