Jan 22, 2010
A reminder that the Manchester District Music Archive’s Queer Noise event (for which I designed posters and flyers) takes place this Saturday.
Join us on Saturday 23rd January 2010 at The Deaf Institute for a one-off celebration of gay music in Manchester.
The line-up includes:
DJs: Dave Kendrick (Paradise Factory) • Jayne Compton (Club Brenda) • Philippa Jarman [...]
Jan 16, 2010
Bellgrove, young Titus and Barquentine by Mervyn Peake. Case designed by Robert Hollingsworth.
I’d thought about posting the covers of my boxed set of Gormenghast paperbacks a couple of years back when there was a flurry of blogospheric attention being given to Penguin cover designs…thought about it then never got round to it. The reason for [...]
Dec 15, 2009
Two recent pieces of work which were being created at the same time so they share some similarity of style (and the same baroque flourish). Queer Noise is a music-related event taking place in Manchester (UK) next month. Music journalist Jon Savage will be leading the discussion and some may recognise the event title as [...]
Oct 26, 2009
Skull Vision by Michael Ayrton (1943).
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art: great title for an exhibition, a shame that it’s all the way down in Cornwall at Tate St Ives.
This group exhibition takes its title from the infamous 1962 book by St Ives artist Sven Berlin. It will explore the influence of [...]
Feb 21, 2009
A design for life | Jon Savage on the history of the Smiley symbol: Watchmen, Acid House and beyond.
Oct 15, 2008
1 Top Class Manager is a book bearing the subtitle “The notebooks of Joy Division’s manager, 1978–1980″ published this week by Anti-Archivists, Manchester. I’ve been working on the design for this on and off since March although we actually started putting it together this time last year.
Rob Gretton, manager of Joy Division and later New [...]
May 10, 2008
Controlled chaos
| Jon Savage on Ian Curtis’s literary influences.
Mar 23, 2008
Unseen pleasures
| Jon Savage on Joy Division’s visual documents.
Feb 14, 2008
Against the tide
| Jon Savage remembers Derek Jarman.
Jul 4, 2006
Beyond Bowie and Frankie, there’s a whole secret history of gay pop, reports Alexis Petridis
‘Wilder, madder, gayer than a Beatle’s hairdo’
It was the love that dare not sing its name—or was it? Beyond Bowie and Frankie, there’s a whole secret history of gay pop, reports Alexis Petridis
Tuesday July 4, 2006
The Guardian
The year 1966 is known [...]
Apr 23, 2006
Seven Songs by 23 Skidoo, FM 2008, 1982.
Since I made a post earlier about bad album design, it’s only right to redress the balance somewhat. Neville Brody has long been a favourite designer and something of an influence since it was looking at his work during the 1980s that made me think seriously about design [...]
