Legendary designer Peter Saville has revealed the inspiration behind his early work for Factory Records, saying the influential covers featured "things that I saw and wished were part of my reality".
Speaking at the launch of his fabric collection Technicolour for Danish brand Kvadrat at 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, Saville talked to Dezeen about his design process and how his early work has influenced popular culture.
The British designer is known for his work for Manchester record label Factory Records, which he started designing posters and eventually album covers for in the late 1970s.
Peter Saville designed the cover for Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures
Saville would go on to create some of the most famous record covers of all time, including Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures and New Order's Blue Monday. These early designs were informed by things Saville felt were missing in his own life. "The material that informed the early work was about things I didn't have," he told Dezeen editor in chief Marcus Fairs in a live-streamed interview.
"It was about things that I saw and wished were part of my reality."
Record covers informed by earlier design movements 
His covers often featured nods to art and design styles that he had come across and was curious about, which were then transmitted to a larger public via the album designs.
"I would go to the college library, and I would pick up a book on the De Stijl movement in Holland in the 19...