New Order - World In Motion - D: Peter Saville (1990).
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Finished cover.
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New Order - Tour poster.
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— Our good friend Corey sent these screen-grabs of some New Order artwork that he got a friend (who collects old machines) to open for him. So this is FreeHand 2, running on OS7. No colour (so you had to call out PMS separations with no reference on screen), and no copy + paste. Back then Photoshop had no 'Layers' and no 'History' functionality. It was truly the Wild West, and I for one am glad I went through this. Working pre-computer (as I also did) was also something I'm really glad I did, you learn so much about the process of print when you worked in overlays, marking up for colour etc.
— Seeing these screen-grabs really brought a tear to the old glass eye, and I thought it would be interesting for people to see them (even if most people think thank god I didn't go through that!). I think the whole process of going through this journey of pre-computer to computer brings truth to the saying 'What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger'...
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wow!
—I had a brief encounter with pre-layer photoshop in my last year of college, just before PS3 came out. Quite a contrast to today, I was working on a 8GB file with 100+ layers.
POSTED BY: lee, October 29th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
I worked with Peter and Brett (Wickens) on the New Order Republic album (as Brett’s design assistant) and Corey’s screen shot brings memories flooding back. Thankfully, the Mac we used for that part of the project had a large colour screen, so blending the images for the album roll card was in colour.
In 2003, World in Motion was re-released on cd in the UK and Peter (Saville) asked me to recreate the sleeve. I blew the virtual dust of Brett’s digital files and it was a joy to re-create the classic sleeve. It must have taken me a fraction of the time to do but with no less care and attention to detail they had instilled in me.
—POSTED BY: Howard Wakefield, October 29th, 2010 at 9:29 pm
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POSTED BY: albertpaul68, November 2nd, 2010 at 6:04 am
Its great to see the transition from screen to print (and initially from an idea in a sketchbook i would imagine) in raw bitmap images. I do think all graphics students should begin study with some basic paste up skills before going on to the mac, you can really feel the human aspect of control and idea in the final work. Mind you, the old macs used to take ages to start and crashed every 10 minutes, so i don’t miss that bit of the process
—POSTED BY: John Rooney, November 30th, 2010 at 1:01 pm
As a caretaker at Free FreeHand, stumbling across an article like this is one of the treasures of FH’s legacy. I started with version 3 but saw FH2 in it’s b&w glory at a studio back-when. Although I can’t validate this, other features in FH2 from the FreeHand Firsts webpage:
—–Auto-trace.
–Editable blends.
–TIFF import.
–Custom fills and tiled fills.
But really, No ‘copy and paste’ ??!! unbelievable.
— Mark
POSTED BY: FreeFreehand, December 12th, 2010 at 1:45 pm
I started just before these days, I remember the big hype of System 7 coming out (didn’t work properly till 7.1!), Page layouts done with Ready Set GO! and then someone gave us a Beta version QuarkXpress 2.1 and said this is the future! And Photoshop was just Photoshop no number!
—POSTED BY: StevePitt, February 9th, 2011 at 1:15 am
Like you I started working before the old macs took over. I always really enjoyed the whole visual magic marker process where clients were presented with something that was clearly unfinished. These days visuals look like finished jobs and I think it often stifles clients responses to what they’re looking at. Here’s some visuals I put together with Andy Walmsley from Wash many, many years ago! I can almost smell the markers now…
—http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerseyraindog/491367167/in/set-72157626199132191/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerseyraindog/491376885/in/set-72157626199132191/
POSTED BY: Phil Regan, March 22nd, 2011 at 9:05 am
Ahh them was the days. I remember running this on a Mac SE30. 512k of RAM and a massive 40mb hard disk.
—POSTED BY: Niall Kitching, May 18th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Saw this post very late (JUne 2012!)… Anyway, a bit of history about the EnglandNewOrder WOrld In Motion sleeve, as i remember it. At the time, I was working on the World In Motion concept at Peter Saville Associates and came together with lots of visual research including funky pics of early Visa dots “world logos”… One day the client Tony Wilson was visiting the PSA studio and there was this impromptu meeting around Peter’s desk, all my research and ideas were shown, and when Tony Wilson saw the world he exclaimed: why not the world as a football? Further trials ensued and Brett designed the final vector world/football and ‘spherized’ it, not sure with which program though. Peter then added his own twist: let’s make this a a kind of Eurovision TV_trash background. The album cover typography (done by me) was inspired by the kind of trashy vernacular lettering on English (football) coaches…
—POSTED BY: Marc Wood, June 19th, 2012 at 4:08 pm