How Does It Feel? Peter Saville’s Color Code

FACT75: Peter Saville, New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983, via wikipedia I’m not sure I have anything to say about them yet, but I’ve been looking at Peter Saville’s color code from his New Order album covers, which he developed with Brett Wickens. Back cover of New Order, Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983 via discogs The outer two rows of the color wheel on the back of Power, Corruption & Lies is the key to deciphering the one- or tw0-color blocks that represent both the numbers 1-9 and the alphabet. It’s clearer, perhaps, in the cover for the 12″ release of Blue Monday, that the design is based on a 5 1/4-inch floppy disk, but this reference is already lost in some design discussions. FAC73: Peter Saville, New Order, Blue Monday and The Beach, 1983, die-cut cover, via discogs The code on PC&L just says FACT75, the Factory Records release number, but the wraparound code on Blue Monday says more, I guess, and with spacers, is more legible: FAC73 BLUE MONDAY AND on the front, and…