On Monday at the London Design Festival, Peter Saville revealed that he's designing a logo for Kanye West, only a day after he received the prestigious London Design Medal. Many known him for doing iconic album sleeves for Joy Division, New Order, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, and various other bands, in addition to a recent collaboration with Supreme and Vans.
It turns out that just before he gave a speech at the V&A Museum, he was meeting with Kanye, who wanted to join Saville but was about to be on the Jools Holland show. Saville told Dezeen about meeting with him six months ago for coffee and says, "I didn't know his music and I still don't know his music. I met him as a person, who wanted to meet me and he was nice and intelligent and an astonishing energy and astonishing intelligence."
He compliments Kanye further, saying that, "Every so often you meet a talent who has energy. And Kanye without a doubt is a talent with energy. At the moment he said can I help him with something, and I said ‘I don't know, I'll try’."
Of the inspiration behind working together, Saville says,
Read the remainder of the incredible interview on Dezeen.
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