Peter Saville is a designer and ideologue who has pioneered the relationship between
cultural identity and contemporary aesthetics. Long acknowledged as one of the leading
graphic designers of the post-Punk period, his work articulates an astonishing refinement
of intellectual concept, the consequence of which is an enshrinement of product which
doubles as cultural commentary. Saville's aesthetic maintains a dialogue between
glamour and subversion, modernity and postmodernism, commodity and conceptualism.
Himself mythologised for own contribution to the language of contemporary taste - from
early work for the group Joy Division, through to his present explorations of the
abstracted forms of his own visual language - Saville's work for the diamond dust
portfolio performs a cultural and aesthetic audit on the very idea of The Crown Jewels.
Saville is one of the architects of contemporary cultural language, and confirms his role
as one of the unique interpreters of postmodern thought and culture.