I must to see the whole package: the format, the paper type, the printing, typography, etc, to perceive the concept in its entirely. That's the right way to analyse the graphic design. But in a first view, seeing only the graphics for the front cover in a plain 2D image, it has a resemblance with the previous ones: Lost Sirens, Troxy, Bestival... Nothing really imaginative. But looks beautiful. And the best thing is: no "New Order" or album title written on the front.

I expect something really amazing for the box set.

I sometimes think I had more fun collecting vinyl than actually listening to it...
Fairly uninspired this time around - guess I like all the futuristic 82-ish artwork the most - but it's the music that counts.

I'm not mad about it. It is vaguely reminiscent of the Factus 8 1981- 1982 EP cover but nowhere near as beautiful. Feels like a bit of a wasted opportunity to do something really great.

! That can not be a coincidence. I expect new music with old influences.

I prefer this cover to the Get Ready artwork. The artwork for WFTSC was good, the singles from it less so.

24 combinations. what a fan rip off - pathetic.

To my mind, the cover has a simple brief: Be notable & eye catching as a 1" square pic on a computer / mobile device screen.

Simple layout, bold black lines which don't follow any pattern (or do they?) and 4 near primary colours, which change in they layout (do they? and how? why?)

It's instantly recognisable, engages your curiosity (subconsciously, at least) and can be readily adapted to recognisably themed releases like singles, remixes etc.

We don't have shelves stacked with 1 foot square LPs to grab our attention these days, so a different approach is required (same goes for the OMD cover above, I guess.)


And, as it's Saville... it also looks like someone else's work which is being homaged / appropriated / nicked (take your pick, I'm happy with homage) - in this case Piet Mondrian.


All in all, I like it.

I'll try and find images on the internet of as many different variations of the artwork as possible, save each one to laptop, then in iTunes i will assign each track a different version so when i play the album on my phone a unique artwork will display for each track.You can do this in iTunes by assigning different artwork for each track by right clicking on desired track>get info>artwork>add artwork and selecting whatever pic from your saved images on your laptop.Then when you're done doing this for all tracks sync to your phone.

I've done a similar thing for Restless.A different artwork for each different mix.Though the last one is an image from the video which corresponds to the track that is used in the video (the 4.26 or whatever it is version) More mixes to come of course so will have to decide what other unique images to find and use for each different mix...

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Kind of yeah, Piet Mondrian ( search google images for his paintings), channelled through the Factus 8 EP artwork.I saw that i posted back in the summer on this thread at the time that it seemed like a wasted opportunity to do something great but i guess i've kind of accepted it now.

Surely is just a variation each for CD, vinyl and download versions?

Is this the back cover? This is detail from the back of Music Complete t shirt in the Japanese Amazon store.The tracklist is actually flipped vertical on the t shirt itself but i saved the image and flipped it horizontal.I don't know if this actually is the back cover but i'd hazard a guess it is.

Everything's gone music complete