Peter Saville

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Peter Saville is a British graphic designer renowned for his iconic album cover art and visual identity work, particularly for the Manchester-based label Factory Records and bands like Joy Division and New Order.

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Label Occurrences
Peter Saville canonical 5

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf art director
graphic designer
human
associatedWith Factory Records NERFINISHED
Joy Division NERFINISHED
Manchester music scene
New Order NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
designed album covers for Joy Division
album covers for New Order
visual identity for Factory Records
employer Factory Records NERFINISHED
familyName Saville NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork album cover design
graphic design
visual identity design
genre album cover art
music-related graphic design
givenName Peter
hasInfluenced contemporary music graphic design
visual culture of post-punk era
hasWorkType branding
record sleeve design
visual identity systems
influencedBy conceptual art
modernist graphic design
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement post-punk design
name Peter Saville NERFINISHED
nationality British
notableFor album cover art for Factory Records
album cover art for Joy Division
album cover art for New Order
minimalist and conceptual record sleeve designs
work on Manchester music scene visual culture
notableWork album artwork for Joy Division's releases
album artwork for New Order's releases
visual identity for Factory Records label
occupation art director
creative director
graphic designer
residence United Kingdom
workLocation London, England
surface form: London

Manchester NERFINISHED

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
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Subject: Peter Saville
Description of subject: Peter Saville is a British graphic designer renowned for his iconic album cover art and visual identity work, particularly for the Manchester-based label Factory Records and bands like Joy Division and New Order.

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Factory Records foundedBy Peter Saville
Factory Records artDirector Peter Saville
album So coverArtDesigner Peter Saville
subject surface form: So
The Lexicon of Love coverArtDesigner Peter Saville
Autumn coverArtist Peter Saville