Post 32- Peter Saville

Though I hadn't consciously referenced the work of Peter Saville in creating the visual system, somebody observed that his influence is evident within it and retrospectively I can also see this. This is not surprising however as Saville's fame as a designer is founded on his imagery for various music artists' album covers; imagery which has shaped visual language about music.

My system of symbols is most apparently linked to the key to his coded alphabet adorning the sleeve of New Order's Blue Monday. Though this link is not profound (it is a key to a code, rather than the code in itself and describes the alphabet rather than music), you can draw some parallels between the circular composition, importance of colour and relation to language.

Saville's coded alphabet key and alphabet code implemented on the Blue Monday sleeve.