Juicy is 1 Year Old
No coincidence perhaps that as we look to celebrate our own first birthday, I've just been to an exhibition celebrating the Hacienda's birthdays in Manchester. The showpiece was their very own first birthday poster designed by Peter Saville. We haven't got our own celebrity designed poster, so we'll celebrate with the most iconic birthday poster of my generation here .....
ARTICLE: In a knowing and gleeful way, Peter Saville, the graphic designer and art director, is contemplating his own greatest creation: himself. "When people started looking at the 1980's, Peter Saville became a classic. The work I did for Factory Records had a predictive quality - it showed the shape of things to come. I became lionised, which was lucky, because business and I weren't getting along. I became bigger than the the thing I would have set my name to.
I'm more interesting than most of my clients.
So for the last few years, I've been coming to terms with this, being the legend. Peter Saville is Peter Saville, it's an end in itself. I decided I had to present what is most personal and important to me. I've been less inclined to do commisioned work which doesn't have a space for me. My biggest client this year is Peter Saville, but the problem with him is that he doesn't have any bloody money."
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